Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

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Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity.

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

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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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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

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If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.

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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.

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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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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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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.

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I am not afraid of the truth, if any one could tell it me, but I am afraid of parts of it impertinently uttered.

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To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret element of gusto.

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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

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When we look in to the long avenue of the future, and see the good there is for each one of us to do, we realize, after all, what a beautiful thing it is to work, and to live, and to be happy.

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There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terward.

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A good conscience is eight parts of courage.

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Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.

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O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song!

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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

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A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation.

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