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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards

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Don't ever confuse motion with progress.

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Nobody speaks of a beautifful view for 5 minutes

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Some day...after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you.

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Every child can remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies.

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A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student.

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In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.

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How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do!

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An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate.

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But of works of art little can be said.

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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

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Youth now flees on feathered foot.

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There is but one art, to omit.

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To be honest, to be kind-to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation-above all, on the same grim condition to keep friends with himself-here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.

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We can only know others by ourselves.

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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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Anyone can carry their burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do their work, however hard, for one day.

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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.

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To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.

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