Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

A child should always say what's true, And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table: At least as far as he is able.

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You can kill the body, but not the spirit.

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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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When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

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Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield.

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Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.

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We fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of fear and pain.

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No man is useless while he has a friend.

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Strange indeed is the attraction of the forest for the minds of men.

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Make up your mind to be happy.

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Respectability is a very good thing in its way, but it does not rise superior to all considerations. I would not for a moment venture to hint that it was a matter of taste; but I think I will go as far as this: that if a position is admittedly unkind, uncomfortable, unnecessary, and superfluously useless, although it were as respectableasthe Church of England, the sooner a man is out of it, the better for himself, and all concerned.

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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

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It was for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills. Sir, if that was my master, why had he a mask upon his face?

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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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The mark of a Scot of all classes [is that] he ... remembers and cherishes the memory of his forebears, good or bad; and there burns alive in him a sense of identity with the dead even to the twentieth generation.

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The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

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Let first the onion flourish there, Rose among roots, the maiden-fair, Wine-scented and poetic soul Of the capacious salad bowl.

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Youth now flees on feathered foot.

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Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.

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Don't ever confuse motion with progress.

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