Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die.

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

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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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Whenever the moon and stars are set, Whenever the wind is high, All night long in the dark and wet, A man goes riding by.

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Nobody speaks of a beautifful view for 5 minutes

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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.

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Cruel children, crying babies, All grow up as geese and gabies, Hated, as their age increases, By their nephews and their nieces.

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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

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Flower god, god of the spring, beautiful, bountiful, Cold-dyed shield in the sky, lover of versicles, Here I wander in April Cold, grey-headed; and still to my Heart, Spring comes with a bound, Spring the deliverer, Spring, song-leader in woods, chorally resonant; Spring, flower-planter in meadows, Child-conductor in willowy Fields deep dotted with bloom, daisies and crocuses: Here that child from his heart drinks of eternity: O child, happy are children!

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Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness.

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If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.

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We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a legend.

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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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Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.

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I am not afraid of the truth, if any one could tell it me, but I am afraid of parts of it impertinently uttered.

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This is still the strangest thing in all man's travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories.

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Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often makes its entrance from the mother's corpse.

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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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You have no idea, unless you have tried it, how endlessly long is a summer's day, that you measure out only by hunger, and bring to an end only when you are drowsy.

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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

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