Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

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

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Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.

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In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.

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Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.

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If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.

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

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If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he often laments his youth a deal more bitterly and with a more genuine intonation.

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

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The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean.

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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

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

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A man met a lad weeping. "What do you weep for?" he asked. "I am weeping for my sins," said the lad. "You must have little to do," said the man. The next day, they met again. Once more the lad was weeping. "Why do you weep now?" asked the man. "I am weeping because I have nothing to eat," said the lad. "I thought it would come to that," said the man.

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Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.

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Blows the wind to-day, and the sun and the rain are flying, Blows the wind on the moors to-day and now, Where about the graves of the martyrs the whaups are crying, My heart remembers how!

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To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude...

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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

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An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

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

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Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement?

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