Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.

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A friend is somebody who loves us with understanding, as well as emotion.

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Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.

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But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.

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Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest

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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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Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement?

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Wine is bottled poetry.

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

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I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting as weeding. I went crazy over the outdoor work, and at last had to confine myself to the house, or literature must have gone by the board.

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Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.

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Give to me the life I love, Let the lave go by me, Give the jolly heaven above And the byway nigh me. Bed in the bush with the stars to see, Bread I dip in the river There's the life for a man like me, There's the life for ever.

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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

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Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them.

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Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.

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Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.

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The spirit of delight comes in small ways.

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No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature.

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I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.

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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

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