Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.

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As if a man's soul were not too small to begin with, they have dwarfed an narrowed theirs by a life of all work and no play; until here they are at forty, with a listless attention, a mind vacant of all material of amusement, and not one thought to rub against another, while they wait for the train.

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Age may have one side, but assuredly Youth has the other. There is nothing more certain than that both are right, except perhaps that both are wrong.

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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

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You can kill the body, but not the spirit.

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You mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now? No? Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese-toasted, mostly-and woke up again, and here I were.

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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

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Really don't choose every day from the harvest you experience but from the seeds you plant

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His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object.

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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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It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.

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Nobody speaks of a beautifful view for 5 minutes

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If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.

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

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To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.

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Money alone is only a mean; it presupposes a man to use it. The rich man can go where he pleases, but perhaps please himself nowhere. He can buy a library or visit the whole world, but perhaps has neither patience to read nor intelligence to see.... The purse may be full and the heart empty. He may have gained the world and lost himself; and with all his wealth around him ... he may live as blank a life as any tattered ditcher.

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There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . . . it quiets a man down like saying his prayers.

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An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate.

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Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

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my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head, Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.

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