Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

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

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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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Alan," cried I, "what makes ye so good to me? What makes ye care for such a thankless fellow?" Deed, and I don't, know" said Alan. "For just precisely what I thought I liked about ye, was that ye never quarrelled:—and now I like ye better!

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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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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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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

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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 was Silver's voice, and before I had heard a dozen words, I would not have shown myself for all the world. I lay there, trembling and listening, in the extreme of fear and curiostiy, for, in those dozen words, I understood that the lives of all the honest men aboard depended on me alone.

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Wine is bottled poetry.

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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

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Nothing like a little judicious levity.

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I know what happiness is, for I have done good work.

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Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement?

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And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought.

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Things looked at patiently from one side after another generally end by showing a side that is beautiful.

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It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse.

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A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation.

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When I was a boy, I was a bit puzzled, and hardly knew weather it was myself or the world that was curious and worth looking into. Now I know that it is myself, and stick to that.

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Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak.

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The true success is to labour.

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