Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!

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If you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know.

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If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.

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There is nothing but God's grace. We walk upon it; we breathe it; we live and die by it; it makes the nails and axles of the universe.

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

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It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year; The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier. The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro, A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane. Autumn leaves and rain, The passion of the gale.

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I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

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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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Don't ever confuse motion with progress.

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Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular-letter to the friends of him who writes it.

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A friend is a gift you give yourself.

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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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Give to me the life I love, Let the lave go by me, Give the jolly heaven above And the byway nigh me. Bed in the bush with the stars to see, Bread I dip in the river There's the life for a man like me, There's the life for ever.

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Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy.

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When the grass was closely mown, Walking on the lawn alone, In the turf a hole I found, And hid a soldier underground. Spring and daisies came apace; Grasses hide my hiding place; Grasses run like a green sea O'er the lawn up to my knee.

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

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Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.

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It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point, indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.

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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

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To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.

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