Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

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

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We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.

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

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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

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Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule), no woman should marry a man who does not smoke.

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You can kill the body, but not the spirit.

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

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Lastly no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. It is not for nothing that this "ignoble tobagie" as Michelet calls it, spreads all over the world.

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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

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We can only know others by ourselves.

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Trusty, dusky, vivid, true, With eyes of gold and bramble-dew, Steel-true and blade-straight, The great artificer made my mate.

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Give us courage and gaiety and the quient mind . . .

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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

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There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science; but it is all round about you, and for the trouble of looking, that you will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life.

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Of what shall we be proud of if we are not proud of our friends?

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Live life to the fullest.

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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

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