Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

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He who has learned to love an art or science has wisely laid up riches against the day of riches.

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To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.

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Lastly no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. It is not for nothing that this "ignoble tobagie" as Michelet calls it, spreads all over the world.

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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

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It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.

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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

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To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret element of gusto.

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A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.

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To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.

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We should wipe two words from our vocabulary: gratitude and charity. In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it is not valued; it is received from the hand of friendship, or it is resented.

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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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It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to reawaken in us the sharp edge of sense and that impression of mystic strangeness which otherwise passes out of life with the coming of years; but the sight of a loved face is what renews a man's character from the fountain upwards.

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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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A birdie with a yellow bill Hoped upon the window sill, Cocked his shining eye and said: 'Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-'ead?

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Children are certainly too good to be true.

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

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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

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Age may have one side, but assuredly Youth has the other. There is nothing more certain than that both are right, except perhaps that both are wrong.

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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

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