Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.

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When the teeth are shut the tongue is at home.

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When the grass was closely mown, Walking on the lawn alone, In the turf a hole I found, And hid a soldier underground. Spring and daisies came apace; Grasses hide my hiding place; Grasses run like a green sea O'er the lawn up to my knee.

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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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I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements.

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And the true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss the joy is to miss all.

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Saints are sinners who kept on going.

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This was the shocking thing; that the slime of the pit seemed to utter cries and voices; that the amorphous dust gesticulated and sinned; that what was dead, and had no shape, should usurp the offices of life. And this again, that that insurgent horror was knit to him closer than a wife, closer than an eye; lay caged in his flesh, where he heard it mutter and felt it struggle to be born; and at every hour of weakness, and in the confidence of slumber, prevailed against him, and deposed him out of life.

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A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.

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The world has no room for cowards.

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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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The fact is, we are much more afraid of life than our ancestors, and cannot find it inourhearts either tomarry or not tomarry.Marriage isterrifying, but so is a cold and forlorn old age.

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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

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Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.

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Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.

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Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.

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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

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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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And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food.

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I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens.

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