Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens.

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We got together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts imaginable--not pretty to look at, but fellows, by their faces, of the most indomitable spirit.

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Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.

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

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I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements.

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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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Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness.

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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

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Going for character: why not now, and where you stand?

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Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door; Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn Disturbs the eternal sleep, But in the stillness far withdrawn Our dreamless rest for evermore we keep.

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The outer world, from which we cower into our houses, seemed after all a gentle habitable place; and night after night a man's bed, it seemed, was laid and waiting for him in the fields, where God keeps an open house.

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If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he often laments his youth a deal more bitterly and with a more genuine intonation.

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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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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. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavours. If it may not, give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temparate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another.

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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

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If you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife

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And this shall be for music when no one else is near, The fine song for singing, the rare song to hear! That only I remember, that only you admire, Of the broad road that stretches and the roadside fire.

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Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.

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The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man who has a few friends, or one who has a dozen (if there be any one so wealthy on this earth), cannot forget on how precarious a base his happiness reposes; and how by a stroke or two of fate --a death, a few light words, a piece of stamped paper, a woman's bright eyes --he may be left, in a month, destitute of all.

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A knowledge that another has felt as we have felt, and seen things not much otherwise than we have seen them, will continue to the end to be one of life's choicest blessings.

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