Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.

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

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

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You're either my ship's cook-and then you were treated handsome-or Cap'n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang!

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You must suffer me to go my own dark way.

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

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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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His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to the dust by the many ill things he had done, and raised up again into sober and fearful gratitude by the many he had come so near to doing, yet avoided.

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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

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

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It was for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills. Sir, if that was my master, why had he a mask upon his face?

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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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For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling world reach you no more.

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When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.

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There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science; but it is all round about you, and for the trouble of looking, that you will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life.

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Nobody speaks of a beautifful view for 5 minutes

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Now, to be properly enjoyed, a walking tour should be gone upon alone.... Freedom is of the essence, because you should be able to stop and go on and follow this way or that as the freak takes you.... There should be no cackle of voices at your elbow to jar on the meditative silence of the morning.

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After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.

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The spirit, Sir, is one of mockery.

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