Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

It is the history of our kindnesses that alone make this world tolerable. If it were not for that, for the effect of kind words, kind looks, kind letters . . . I should be inclined to think our life a practical jest in the worst possible spirit.

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Make up your mind to be happy.

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But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.

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The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.

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In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel.

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The child that is not clean and neat, With lots of toys and things to eat, He is a naughty child, I'm sure-- Or else his dear Papa is poor.

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And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food.

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We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a legend.

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There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terward.

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We were to found a University magazine. A pair of little, active brothers-Livingstone by name, great skippers on the foot, great rubbers of the hands, who kept a book-shop over against the University building-had been debauched to play the part of publishers. We four were to be conjuct editors and, what was the main point of the concern, to print our own works; while, by every rule of arithmetic-that flatterer of credulity-the adventure must succeed and bring great profit. Well, well: it was a bright vision.

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If you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know.

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The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and touched a virginity of sense.

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Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.

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Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak.

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Friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway. The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

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Don't ever confuse motion with progress.

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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

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We can only know others by ourselves.

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

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Faster than fairies, faster than witches, Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches; And charging along like troops in a battle, All through the meadows the horses and cattle

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