Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

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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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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The spirit, Sir, is one of mockery.

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Let first the onion flourish there, Rose among roots, the maiden-fair, Wine-scented and poetic soul Of the capacious salad bowl.

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The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks.

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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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It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity.

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Youth now flees on feathered foot.

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Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.

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A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so.

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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

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I who all the Winter through, Cherished other loves than you And kept hands with hoary policy in marriage-bed and pew; Now I know the false and true, For the earnest sun looks through, And my old love comes to meet me in the dawning and the dew.

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Had be been Shakespeare, he would then have written Troilus and Cressidato brand the offending sex; but being only a little dog, he began to bite them.

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There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk; to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome.

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Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.

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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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To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor.

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We fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of fear and pain.

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