Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way I have to go to bed by day.

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The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

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The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.

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All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.

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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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To cast in it with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations.

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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

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Trusty, dusky, vivid, true, With eyes of gold and bramble-dew, Steel-true and blade-straight, The great artificer made my mate.

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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

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If this is death, it is easier than life.

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Youth is wholly experimental.

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

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Friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway. The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.

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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

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Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest

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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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It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.

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