Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.

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The bourgeoisie's weapon is starvation. If as a writer or artist you run counter to their narrow notions they simplyand silently withdraw your means of subsistence. I sometimes wonder how many people of talent are executed in this way every year.

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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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Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.

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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

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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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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as simple and specious as a statue to the first glance, and yet on examination, as lively and interesting as a forest in detail.

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I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

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The world was made before English language, and seemingly upon a different design.

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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

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

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Go, little book, and wish to all Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall, A bin of wine, a spice of wit, A house with lawns enclosing it, A living river by the door, A nightingale in the sycamore!

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A proposition of geometry does not compete with life; and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a work of art. Both are reasonable, both untrue to the crude fact; both inhere in nature, neither represents it.

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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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Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.

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-I am not sure whether he's sane. -If there's any doubt about the matter, he is.

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Of what shall we be proud of if we are not proud of our friends?

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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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The spirit, Sir, is one of mockery.

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

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