Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

I am not afraid of the truth, if any one could tell it me, but I am afraid of parts of it impertinently uttered.

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Some day...after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you.

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I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on man’s shoulders; and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure.

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When we have discovered a continent, or crossed a chain of mountains, it is only to find another ocean or another plain upon the further side. . . . O toiling hands of mortals! O wearied feet, travelling ye know not whither! Soon, soon, it seems to you, you must come forth on some conspicuous hilltop, and but a little way further, against the setting sun, descry the spires of El Dorado. Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

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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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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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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

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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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There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign.

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If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!

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To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.

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There is a certain frame of mind to which a cemetery is, if not an antidote, at least an alleviation. If you are in a fit of the blues, go nowhere else.

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Anyone can carry their burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do their work, however hard, for one day.

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Saints are sinners who kept on going.

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Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.

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This profusion of eccentricities, this dream in masonry and living rock is not a drop scene in a theatre, but a city in the world of reality.

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I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting as weeding. I went crazy over the outdoor work, and at last had to confine myself to the house, or literature must have gone by the board.

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When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.

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Our affections and beliefs are wiser than we; the best that is in us is better than we can understand; for it is grounded beyond experience, and guides us, blindfold but safe, from one age on to another.

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

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