Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

The saddest object in civilization, and to my mind the greatest confession of its failure, is the man who can work, who wants work, and who is not allowed to work.

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And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought.

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Respectability is a very good thing in its way, but it does not rise superior to all considerations. I would not for a moment venture to hint that it was a matter of taste; but I think I will go as far as this: that if a position is admittedly unkind, uncomfortable, unnecessary, and superfluously useless, although it were as respectableasthe Church of England, the sooner a man is out of it, the better for himself, and all concerned.

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Nobody speaks of a beautifful view for 5 minutes

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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?

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Go, little book, and wish to all Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall, A bin of wine, a spice of wit, A house with lawns enclosing it, A living river by the door, A nightingale in the sycamore!

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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

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Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak.

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There is but one art, to omit! Oh, if I knew how to omit I would ask no other knowledge. A man who knows how to omit would make an Iliad of a daily paper.

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But of works of art little can be said.

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Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.

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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

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To miss the joy is to miss everything.

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I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.

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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.

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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.

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Wine is bottled poetry.

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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

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All I dreamed about Dr. Jekyll was that one man was being pressed into a cabinet, when he swallowed a drug and changed into another being. I awoke and said at once that I had found the missing link for which I had been looking so long, and before I went again to sleep almost every detail of the story, as it stands, was clear to me. Of course, writing it was another thing.

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