Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

If you would grow great and stately, You must try to walk sedately.

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My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring

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Everything is true; only the opposite is true too; you must believe both equally or be damned.

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Whenever the moon and stars are set, Whenever the wind is high, All night long in the dark and wet, A man goes riding by.

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We live thetime that a match flickers; we pop the corkof a ginger-beer bottle, and the earthquake swallows us on the instant. Is it not odd, is it not incongruous, is it not, in the highest sense of human speech, incredible, that we should think so highly of the ginger-beer, and regard so little the devouring earthquake?

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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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Happiness, eternal or temporal, is not the reward that mankind seeks, Happinesses are but his wayside companions. His soul is in the journey and in the struggle.

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When I was a boy, I was a bit puzzled, and hardly knew weather it was myself or the world that was curious and worth looking into. Now I know that it is myself, and stick to that.

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

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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

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And my heart springs up anew, Bright and confident and true, And the old love comes to meet me, in the dawning and the dew.

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There is but one art, to omit.

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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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To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor.

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The seeming significance of nature's appearances, their unchanging strangeness to the senses, and the thrilling response which they awaken in the mind of man . . . If we could only write near enough to the facts, and yet with no pedestrian calm, but ardently, we might transfer the glamour of reality direct upon our pages.

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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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The greatest engineering is the engineering of men.

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You must suffer me to go my own dark way.

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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

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If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.

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