Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

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In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way I have to go to bed by day.

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I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting as weeding. I went crazy over the outdoor work, and at last had to confine myself to the house, or literature must have gone by the board.

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Be what you are, and become what you are capable of becoming.

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Money alone is only a mean; it presupposes a man to use it. The rich man can go where he pleases, but perhaps please himself nowhere. He can buy a library or visit the whole world, but perhaps has neither patience to read nor intelligence to see.... The purse may be full and the heart empty. He may have gained the world and lost himself; and with all his wealth around him ... he may live as blank a life as any tattered ditcher.

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I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.

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Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.

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

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

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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.

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These are my politics: to change what we can; to better what we can; but still to bear in mind that man is but a devil weakly fettered by some generous beliefs and impositions; and for no word however sounding, and no cause however just and pious, to relax the stricture on these bonds.

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Although I may express myself with some degree of pleasantry the purport of my words is entirely serious.

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No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature.

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Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.

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It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

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We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.

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It is better to be a fool than to be dead.

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Trusty, dusky, vivid, true, With eyes of gold and bramble-dew, Steel-true and blade-straight, The great artificer made my mate.

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The obscurest epoch is to-day.

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