Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

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

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In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way I have to go to bed by day.

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No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature.

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In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel.

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To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.

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I've a grand memory for forgetting.

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There is a certain frame of mind to which a cemetery is, if not an antidote, at least an alleviation. If you are in a fit of the blues, go nowhere else.

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We live thetime that a match flickers; we pop the corkof a ginger-beer bottle, and the earthquake swallows us on the instant. Is it not odd, is it not incongruous, is it not, in the highest sense of human speech, incredible, that we should think so highly of the ginger-beer, and regard so little the devouring earthquake?

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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

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O God! I screamed, and "O God! Again and again; for there before my eyes - pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death - there stood Henry Jekyll."

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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

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It takes hard writing to make easy reading.

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There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . . . it quiets a man down like saying his prayers.

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Be what you are, and become what you are capable of becoming.

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The San Francisco Stock Exchange was the place that continuously pumped up the savings of the lower classes into the pockets of the millionaires.

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The mark of a Scot of all classes [is that] he ... remembers and cherishes the memory of his forebears, good or bad; and there burns alive in him a sense of identity with the dead even to the twentieth generation.

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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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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

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

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Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.

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