Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

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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Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted mostly.

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I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on man’s shoulders; and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure.

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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

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A friend is somebody who loves us with understanding, as well as emotion.

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I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin.

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Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.

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Age may have one side, but assuredly Youth has the other. There is nothing more certain than that both are right, except perhaps that both are wrong.

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Give us courage and gaiety and the quient mind . . .

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I've a grand memory for forgetting.

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Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.

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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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A little amateur painting in water colors shows the innocent and the quiet mind.

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You can kill the body, but not the spirit.

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It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to reawaken in us the sharp edge of sense and that impression of mystic strangeness which otherwise passes out of life with the coming of years; but the sight of a loved face is what renews a man's character from the fountain upwards.

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When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor of the mind.

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The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget.

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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

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