Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.

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

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A friend is a gift you give yourself.

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I love this quote uttered by the character Widget in The Night Circus. He credits it to Herr Thiessen but knows it is a literary quote by the another author. "Wine is bottled poetry

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All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.

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We were to found a University magazine. A pair of little, active brothers-Livingstone by name, great skippers on the foot, great rubbers of the hands, who kept a book-shop over against the University building-had been debauched to play the part of publishers. We four were to be conjuct editors and, what was the main point of the concern, to print our own works; while, by every rule of arithmetic-that flatterer of credulity-the adventure must succeed and bring great profit. Well, well: it was a bright vision.

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I smoke a pipe abroad, because To all cigars I much prefer it, And as I scorn you social laws, My choice has nothing to deter it.

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I never drew a picture of anything that was before me but always from fancy, a sure sign of the absence of artistic eyesight; and I illustrated my lack of real feeling for art by a very early speech: 'Mama,' said I, 'I have drawed a man. Shall I draw his soul now?

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If it comes to a swinging, swing all, say I.

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There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign.

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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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It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!

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When the teeth are shut the tongue is at home.

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Away down the river, A hundred miles or more, Other little children Shall bring my boats ashore.

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To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.

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It is the history of our kindnesses that alone make this world tolerable. If it were not for that, for the effect of kind words, kind looks, kind letters . . . I should be inclined to think our life a practical jest in the worst possible spirit.

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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

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

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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.

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You can kill the body, but not the spirit.

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