Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Jew storekeepers have already learned the advantage to be gained from this [unlimited credit]: they lead on the farmer into irretrievable indebtedness, and keep him ever after as their bondslave hopelessly grinding in the mill.

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All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.

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To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. It is as if a ship captain should sail to India from the Port of London; and having brought a chart of the Thames on deck at his first setting out, should obstinately use no other for the whole voyage.

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O God! I screamed, and "O God! Again and again; for there before my eyes - pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death - there stood Henry Jekyll."

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If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.

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

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

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Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.

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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

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Once I guessed right, And I got credit by't; Thrice I guessed wrong, And I kept my credit on.

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Lastly no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. It is not for nothing that this "ignoble tobagie" as Michelet calls it, spreads all over the world.

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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

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The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain common work as it comes certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.

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There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign.

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If a man knows he will sooner or later be robbed upon a journey, he will have a bottle of the best in every inn, and look upon all his extravagances as so much gained upon the thieves.

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Sit loosely in the saddle.

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I believe in an ultimate decency of things.

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You must suffer me to go my own dark way.

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