Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

I hate to write, but I love to have written.

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My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so.

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It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point, indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.

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For will anyone dare to tell me that business is more entertaining than fooling among boats? He must have never seen a boat, or never seen an office, who says so.

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Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.

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To forget oneself is to be happy.

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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

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If this is death, it is easier than life.

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Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted mostly.

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The FlowersAll the names I know from nurse:Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse,Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock,And the Lady Hollyhock.Fairy places, fairy things,Fairy woods where the wild bee wings,Tiny trees for tiny dames-These must all be fairy names!Tiny woods below whose boughsShady fairies weave a house;Tiny tree-tops, rose or thyme,Where the braver fairies climb!Fair are grown-up people's trees,But the fairest woods are these;Where, if I were not so tall,I should live for good and all

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If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.

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Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

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So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

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Away with funeral music-set The pipe to powerful lips- The cup of life's for him that drinks And not for him that sips.

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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

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Children are certainly too good to be true.

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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

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