Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements.

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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?

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

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The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator. And how many loves have perished because, from pride, or spite, or diffidence, or that unmanly shame which withholds a man from daring to betray emotion, a lover, at the critical point of the relation, has but hung his head and held his tongue?

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Everyday life is a stimulating mixture of order and haphazardry. The sun rises and sets on schedule but the wind bloweth where it listeth.

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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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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

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The mark of a Scot of all classes [is that] he ... remembers and cherishes the memory of his forebears, good or bad; and there burns alive in him a sense of identity with the dead even to the twentieth generation.

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How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do!

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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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Give us courage and gaiety and the quient mind . . .

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The obscurest epoch is to-day.

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You seem to me to be a pretty lucky young man; keep your eyes open to your mercies. That part of piety is eternal; and the man who forgets to be grateful has fallen asleep in life.

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In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.

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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.

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Faster than fairies, faster than witches, Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches; And charging along like troops in a battle, All through the meadows the horses and cattle

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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

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Everything is true; only the opposite is true too; you must believe both equally or be damned.

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In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.

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