Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

We should wipe two words from our vocabulary: gratitude and charity. In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it is not valued; it is received from the hand of friendship, or it is resented.

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Strange indeed is the attraction of the forest for the minds of men.

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You seem to me to be a pretty lucky young man; keep your eyes open to your mercies. That part of piety is eternal; and the man who forgets to be grateful has fallen asleep in life.

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To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.

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Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

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Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.

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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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A proposition of geometry does not compete with life; and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a work of art. Both are reasonable, both untrue to the crude fact; both inhere in nature, neither represents it.

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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

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Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.

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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! Up in the air and over the wall, Till I can see so wide, River and trees and cattle and all Over the countryside. Till I look down on the garden green, Down on the roof so brown- Up in the air I go flying again, Up in the air and down!

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It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year; The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier. The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro, A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane. Autumn leaves and rain, The passion of the gale.

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My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so.

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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

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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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-I am not sure whether he's sane. -If there's any doubt about the matter, he is.

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If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!

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