Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

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

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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

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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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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

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

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Some day...after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you.

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It was for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills. Sir, if that was my master, why had he a mask upon his face?

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You mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now? No? Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese-toasted, mostly-and woke up again, and here I were.

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Our affections and beliefs are wiser than we; the best that is in us is better than we can understand; for it is grounded beyond experience, and guides us, blindfold but safe, from one age on to another.

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and he began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry!

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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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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

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The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.

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I who all the Winter through, Cherished other loves than you And kept hands with hoary policy in marriage-bed and pew; Now I know the false and true, For the earnest sun looks through, And my old love comes to meet me in the dawning and the dew.

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This was the shocking thing; that the slime of the pit seemed to utter cries and voices; that the amorphous dust gesticulated and sinned; that what was dead, and had no shape, should usurp the offices of life. And this again, that that insurgent horror was knit to him closer than a wife, closer than an eye; lay caged in his flesh, where he heard it mutter and felt it struggle to be born; and at every hour of weakness, and in the confidence of slumber, prevailed against him, and deposed him out of life.

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The greatest engineering is the engineering of men.

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

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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

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A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student.

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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

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