Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.

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When we look in to the long avenue of the future, and see the good there is for each one of us to do, we realize, after all, what a beautiful thing it is to work, and to live, and to be happy.

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Nothing made by brute force lasts.

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And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food.

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The child that is not clean and neat, With lots of toys and things to eat, He is a naughty child, I'm sure-- Or else his dear Papa is poor.

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I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on man’s shoulders; and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure.

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The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.

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I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap.

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Love- what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair

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Some day...after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you.

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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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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

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Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference.

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But we are so fond of life that we have no leisure to entertain the terror of death. It is a honeymoon with us all through, and none of the longest. Small blame to us if we give our whole hearts to this glowing bride of ours, to the appetities, to honour, to the hungry curiosity of the mind, to the pleasure of the eyes in nature, and the pride of our own nimble bodies.

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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?

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

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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

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We do not go to cowards for tender dealing; there is nothing so cruel as panic; the man who has least fear for his own carcase, has most time to consider others.

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It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity.

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I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.

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