Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves.

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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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Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule), no woman should marry a man who does not smoke.

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

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The bourgeoisie's weapon is starvation. If as a writer or artist you run counter to their narrow notions they simplyand silently withdraw your means of subsistence. I sometimes wonder how many people of talent are executed in this way every year.

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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

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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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Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them.

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The obscurest epoch is to-day.

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I love this quote uttered by the character Widget in The Night Circus. He credits it to Herr Thiessen but knows it is a literary quote by the another author. "Wine is bottled poetry

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Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them, Fair the fall of songs When the singer sings them. Still they are carolled and said - On wings they are carried - After the singer is dead And the maker buried.

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After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.

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Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.

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

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Make up your mind to be happy.

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Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity.

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Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted mostly.

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The greatest engineering is the engineering 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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Flower god, god of the spring, beautiful, bountiful, Cold-dyed shield in the sky, lover of versicles, Here I wander in April Cold, grey-headed; and still to my Heart, Spring comes with a bound, Spring the deliverer, Spring, song-leader in woods, chorally resonant; Spring, flower-planter in meadows, Child-conductor in willowy Fields deep dotted with bloom, daisies and crocuses: Here that child from his heart drinks of eternity: O child, happy are children!

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