Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

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All I dreamed about Dr. Jekyll was that one man was being pressed into a cabinet, when he swallowed a drug and changed into another being. I awoke and said at once that I had found the missing link for which I had been looking so long, and before I went again to sleep almost every detail of the story, as it stands, was clear to me. Of course, writing it was another thing.

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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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The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.

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

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Every child can remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies.

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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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I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements.

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In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.

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It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse.

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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.

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Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness.

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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

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And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought.

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Loving God, help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds, and the worship of the wise men.

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And my heart springs up anew, Bright and confident and true, And the old love comes to meet me, in the dawning and the dew.

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Trusty, dusky, vivid, true, With eyes of gold and bramble-dew, Steel-true and blade-straight, The great artificer made my mate.

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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

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I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe.

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