Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

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

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If you would grow great and stately, You must try to walk sedately.

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To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.

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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

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Under the strain of this continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, ay, even beyond what I had thought possible to man, I became, in my own person, a creature eaten up and emptied by fever, languidly weak both in body and mind, and solely occupied by one thought: the horror of my other self.

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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

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

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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

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No man is useless while he has a friend.

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In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves.

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Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

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An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate.

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There is but one art, to omit.

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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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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.

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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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If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.

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This was the shocking thing; that the slime of the pit seemed to utter cries and voices; that the amorphous dust gesticulated and sinned; that what was dead, and had no shape, should usurp the offices of life. And this again, that that insurgent horror was knit to him closer than a wife, closer than an eye; lay caged in his flesh, where he heard it mutter and felt it struggle to be born; and at every hour of weakness, and in the confidence of slumber, prevailed against him, and deposed him out of life.

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It is almost as if the millennium were arrived, when we shall throw our clocks and watches over the housetop, and remember time and seasons no more. Not to keep hours for a lifetime is... to live forever.

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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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