Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.

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Cruel children, crying babies, All grow up as geese and gabies, Hated, as their age increases, By their nephews and their nieces.

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It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.

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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

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So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of generous acts.

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O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song!

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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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Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

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Being happy enables you to be free from domination by the outside world.

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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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So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

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The FlowersAll the names I know from nurse:Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse,Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock,And the Lady Hollyhock.Fairy places, fairy things,Fairy woods where the wild bee wings,Tiny trees for tiny dames-These must all be fairy names!Tiny woods below whose boughsShady fairies weave a house;Tiny tree-tops, rose or thyme,Where the braver fairies climb!Fair are grown-up people's trees,But the fairest woods are these;Where, if I were not so tall,I should live for good and all

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Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them.

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Dogs live with man as courtiers 'round a monarch, steeped in the flattery of his notice ... to push their favor in this world of pickings and caresses is, perhaps, the business of their lives.

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Strange indeed is the attraction of the forest for the minds of men.

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I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.

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The bourgeoisie's weapon is starvation. If as a writer or artist you run counter to their narrow notions they simplyand silently withdraw your means of subsistence. I sometimes wonder how many people of talent are executed in this way every year.

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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

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