Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.

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And my heart springs up anew, Bright and confident and true, And the old love comes to meet me, in the dawning and the dew.

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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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Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.

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There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk; to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome.

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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

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Don't ever confuse motion with progress.

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Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.

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A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.

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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

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The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die.

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To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.

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Ice and iron cannot be welded.

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The outer world, from which we cower into our houses, seemed after all a gentle habitable place; and night after night a man's bed, it seemed, was laid and waiting for him in the fields, where God keeps an open house.

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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 world has no room for cowards.

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When we have discovered a continent, or crossed a chain of mountains, it is only to find another ocean or another plain upon the further side. . . . O toiling hands of mortals! O wearied feet, travelling ye know not whither! Soon, soon, it seems to you, you must come forth on some conspicuous hilltop, and but a little way further, against the setting sun, descry the spires of El Dorado. Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

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It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity.

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A good conscience is eight parts of courage.

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You have no idea, unless you have tried it, how endlessly long is a summer's day, that you measure out only by hunger, and bring to an end only when you are drowsy.

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