Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

A great part of this life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.

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Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.

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No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature.

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If you would grow great and stately, You must try to walk sedately.

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I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

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But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognised by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realised, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.

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We live thetime that a match flickers; we pop the corkof a ginger-beer bottle, and the earthquake swallows us on the instant. Is it not odd, is it not incongruous, is it not, in the highest sense of human speech, incredible, that we should think so highly of the ginger-beer, and regard so little the devouring earthquake?

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To be honest, to be kind-to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation-above all, on the same grim condition to keep friends with himself-here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.

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

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You must suffer me to go my own dark way.

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If this is death, it is easier than life.

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The smack of California earth shall linger on the palate of your grandson.

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When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.

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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

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The sticks break, the stones crumble, The eternal altars tilt and tumble, Sanctions and tales dislimn like mist About the amazed evangelist. He stands unshook from age to youth Upon one pin-point of the truth.

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

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The true success is to labour.

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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

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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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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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