Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.

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A birdie with a yellow bill Hoped upon the window sill, Cocked his shining eye and said: 'Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-'ead?

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This grove, that was now so peaceful, must then have rung with cries, I thought; and even with the thought I could believe I heard it ringing still.

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We can only know others by ourselves.

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If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.

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But of works of art little can be said.

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The full truth of this odd matter is what the world has long been looking for and the public curiosity is sure to welcome.

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...those little people, my brownies, who do one half of my work for me while I am fast asleep, and in all human likelihood do the rest for me as well, when I am wide awake and fondly suppose I do for myself.

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Everything is true; only the opposite is true too; you must believe both equally or be damned.

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Make up your mind to be happy.

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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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The world has no room for cowards.

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I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.

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The child that is not clean and neat, With lots of toys and things to eat, He is a naughty child, I'm sure-- Or else his dear Papa is poor.

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Now, to be properly enjoyed, a walking tour should be gone upon alone.... Freedom is of the essence, because you should be able to stop and go on and follow this way or that as the freak takes you.... There should be no cackle of voices at your elbow to jar on the meditative silence of the morning.

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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

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Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.

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Am I no a bonny fighter?

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The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner.

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The smack of California earth shall linger on the palate of your grandson.

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