Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Love- what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair

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Sing a song of seasons; something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall.

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Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.

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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

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All I dreamed about Dr. Jekyll was that one man was being pressed into a cabinet, when he swallowed a drug and changed into another being. I awoke and said at once that I had found the missing link for which I had been looking so long, and before I went again to sleep almost every detail of the story, as it stands, was clear to me. Of course, writing it was another thing.

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To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

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The essence of love is kindness.

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Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door; Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn Disturbs the eternal sleep, But in the stillness far withdrawn Our dreamless rest for evermore we keep.

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If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.

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Benjamin Franklin went through life an altered man because he once paid too dearly for a penny whistle. My concern springs usually from a deeper source, to wit, from having bought a whistle when I did not want one.

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The sticks break, the stones crumble, The eternal altars tilt and tumble, Sanctions and tales dislimn like mist About the amazed evangelist. He stands unshook from age to youth Upon one pin-point of the truth.

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You mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now? No? Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese-toasted, mostly-and woke up again, and here I were.

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To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.

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Some places speak distinctly. Certain dark gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwreck.

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We can only know others by ourselves.

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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

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This is still the strangest thing in all man's travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories.

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Age may have one side, but assuredly Youth has the other. There is nothing more certain than that both are right, except perhaps that both are wrong.

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By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.

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A birdie with a yellow bill Hoped upon the window sill, Cocked his shining eye and said: 'Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-'ead?

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