Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!

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Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement?

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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.

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In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way I have to go to bed by day.

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It is better to be a fool than to be dead. It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind. For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

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The outer world, from which we cower into our houses, seemed after all a gentle habitable place; and night after night a man's bed, it seemed, was laid and waiting for him in the fields, where God keeps an open house.

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We should wipe two words from our vocabulary: gratitude and charity. In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it is not valued; it is received from the hand of friendship, or it is resented.

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O God! I screamed, and "O God! Again and again; for there before my eyes - pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death - there stood Henry Jekyll."

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It was Silver's voice, and before I had heard a dozen words, I would not have shown myself for all the world. I lay there, trembling and listening, in the extreme of fear and curiostiy, for, in those dozen words, I understood that the lives of all the honest men aboard depended on me alone.

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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.

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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

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The ideal story is that of two people who go into love step for step, with a fluttered consciousness, like a pair of children venturing together into a dark room.

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Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child.

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All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.

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It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity.

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And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought.

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Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness.

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

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