Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.

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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

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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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This profusion of eccentricities, this dream in masonry and living rock is not a drop scene in a theatre, but a city in the world of reality.

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Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.

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I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.

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

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Everyday life is a stimulating mixture of order and haphazardry. The sun rises and sets on schedule but the wind bloweth where it listeth.

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They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener.

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Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.

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Everything is true; only the opposite is true too; you must believe both equally or be damned.

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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as simple and specious as a statue to the first glance, and yet on examination, as lively and interesting as a forest in detail.

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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.

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Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.

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Give us courage and gaiety and the quient mind . . .

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The mark of a Scot of all classes [is that] he ... remembers and cherishes the memory of his forebears, good or bad; and there burns alive in him a sense of identity with the dead even to the twentieth generation.

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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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Sing a song of seasons; something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall.

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Love- what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair

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