Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Away down the river, A hundred miles or more, Other little children Shall bring my boats ashore.

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The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die.

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Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.

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A little amateur painting in water colors shows the innocent and the quiet mind.

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I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on man’s shoulders; and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure.

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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?

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The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they disengage us from ourselves, they constrain us to the acquaintance of others; and they show us the web of experience, but with a singular change-that monstrous, consuming ego of ours being, nonce, struck out.

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How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do!

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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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A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.

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Must we to bed indeed? Well then, Let us arise and go like men, And face with an undaunted tread The long black passage up to bed.

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A child should always say what's true, And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table: At least as far as he is able.

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And my heart springs up anew, Bright and confident and true, And the old love comes to meet me, in the dawning and the dew.

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Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield.

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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.

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It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.

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We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm.

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

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Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.

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A friend is somebody who loves us with understanding, as well as emotion.

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