Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

A great part of this life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.

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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

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Life is not a matter of holding good cards

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My tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky; It's time to take the window to see Leerie going by; For every night at tea-time and before you take your seat, With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street.

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Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.

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To the old our mouths are always partly closed; we must swallow our obvious retorts and listen. They sit above our heads, on life's raised dais, and appeal at once to our respect and pity.

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Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.

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To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.

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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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Away with funeral music-set The pipe to powerful lips- The cup of life's for him that drinks And not for him that sips.

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When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.

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

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He who has learned to love an art or science has wisely laid up riches against the day of riches.

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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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The San Francisco Stock Exchange was the place that continuously pumped up the savings of the lower classes into the pockets of the millionaires.

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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

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Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.

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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 little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

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