Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

and he began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry!

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

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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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[T]he kingdom of heaven is of the childlike, of those who are easy to please, who love and who give pleasure. Mighty men of their hands, the smiters and the builders and the judges, have lived long and done sternly and yet preserved this lovely character; and among our carpet interests and twopenny concerns, the shame were indelible if we should lose it. Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality; they are the perfect duties.

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Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often makes its entrance from the mother's corpse.

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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

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The greatest engineering is the engineering of men.

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I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.

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The essence of love is kindness.

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Go, little book, and wish to all Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall, A bin of wine, a spice of wit, A house with lawns enclosing it, A living river by the door, A nightingale in the sycamore!

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

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Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference.

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And the true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss the joy is to miss all.

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The true success is to labour.

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If it comes to a swinging, swing all, say I.

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Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.

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I hate to write, but I love to have written.

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The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks.

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I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.

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