Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

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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To be honest, to be kind-to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation-above all, on the same grim condition to keep friends with himself-here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.

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Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.

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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 but one art, to omit.

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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

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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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Had be been Shakespeare, he would then have written Troilus and Cressidato brand the offending sex; but being only a little dog, he began to bite them.

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Don't ever confuse motion with progress.

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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

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For will anyone dare to tell me that business is more entertaining than fooling among boats? He must have never seen a boat, or never seen an office, who says so.

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To forget oneself is to be happy.

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The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they disengage us from ourselves, they constrain us to the acquaintance of others; and they show us the web of experience, but with a singular change-that monstrous, consuming ego of ours being, nonce, struck out.

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

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A friend is somebody who loves us with understanding, as well as emotion.

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Everyone lives by selling something.

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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

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

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and he began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry!

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