Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

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.

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We should wipe two words from our vocabulary: gratitude and charity. In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it is not valued; it is received from the hand of friendship, or it is resented.

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The spirit, Sir, is one of mockery.

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You're either my ship's cook-and then you were treated handsome-or Cap'n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang!

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To cast in it with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations.

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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

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I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap.

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

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It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity.

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How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do!

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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

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In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.

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It takes hard writing to make easy reading.

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Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.

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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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How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do! Up in the air and over the wall, Till I can see so wide, River and trees and cattle and all Over the countryside. Till I look down on the garden green, Down on the roof so brown- Up in the air I go flying again, Up in the air and down!

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After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.

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A friend is a gift you give yourself.

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The ideal story is that of two people who go into love step for step, with a fluttered consciousness, like a pair of children venturing together into a dark room.

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