Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

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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Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.

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You can kill the body, but not the spirit.

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All I dreamed about Dr. Jekyll was that one man was being pressed into a cabinet, when he swallowed a drug and changed into another being. I awoke and said at once that I had found the missing link for which I had been looking so long, and before I went again to sleep almost every detail of the story, as it stands, was clear to me. Of course, writing it was another thing.

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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

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My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring

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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

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His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to the dust by the many ill things he had done, and raised up again into sober and fearful gratitude by the many he had come so near to doing, yet avoided.

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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

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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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...those little people, my brownies, who do one half of my work for me while I am fast asleep, and in all human likelihood do the rest for me as well, when I am wide awake and fondly suppose I do for myself.

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my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head, Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.

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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.

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You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others.

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All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.

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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.

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

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After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.

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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

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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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