Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. It is as if a ship captain should sail to India from the Port of London; and having brought a chart of the Thames on deck at his first setting out, should obstinately use no other for the whole voyage.

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Nobody speaks of a beautifful view for 5 minutes

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There is but one art, to omit! Oh, if I knew how to omit I would ask no other knowledge. A man who knows how to omit would make an Iliad of a daily paper.

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This grove, that was now so peaceful, must then have rung with cries, I thought; and even with the thought I could believe I heard it ringing still.

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As if a man's soul were not too small to begin with, they have dwarfed an narrowed theirs by a life of all work and no play; until here they are at forty, with a listless attention, a mind vacant of all material of amusement, and not one thought to rub against another, while they wait for the train.

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You're either my ship's cook-and then you were treated handsome-or Cap'n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang!

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Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.

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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

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A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.

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I love this quote uttered by the character Widget in The Night Circus. He credits it to Herr Thiessen but knows it is a literary quote by the another author. "Wine is bottled poetry

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Strange indeed is the attraction of the forest for the minds of men.

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I believe in an ultimate decency of things.

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Blows the wind to-day, and the sun and the rain are flying, Blows the wind on the moors to-day and now, Where about the graves of the martyrs the whaups are crying, My heart remembers how!

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Although I may express myself with some degree of pleasantry the purport of my words is entirely serious.

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Really don't choose every day from the harvest you experience but from the seeds you plant

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Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child.

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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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There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.

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A child should always say what's true, And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table: At least as far as he is able.

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Take care of each other.

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