Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.

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I have never seen the sea quiet round Treasure Island. The sun might blaze overhead, the air be without a breath, the surface smooth and blue, but still these great rollers would be running along all the external coast, thundering and thundering by day and night; and I scarce believe there is one spot in the island where a man would be out of earshot of their noise.

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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

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Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular-letter to the friends of him who writes it.

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To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.

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The child that is not clean and neat, With lots of toys and things to eat, He is a naughty child, I'm sure-- Or else his dear Papa is poor.

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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.

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

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Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference.

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All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.

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Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

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Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body.

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Money alone is only a mean; it presupposes a man to use it. The rich man can go where he pleases, but perhaps please himself nowhere. He can buy a library or visit the whole world, but perhaps has neither patience to read nor intelligence to see.... The purse may be full and the heart empty. He may have gained the world and lost himself; and with all his wealth around him ... he may live as blank a life as any tattered ditcher.

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A good conscience is eight parts of courage.

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

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With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.

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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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We got together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts imaginable--not pretty to look at, but fellows, by their faces, of the most indomitable spirit.

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Ice and iron cannot be welded.

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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

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