Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.

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Go, little book, and wish to all Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall, A bin of wine, a spice of wit, A house with lawns enclosing it, A living river by the door, A nightingale in the sycamore!

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-I am not sure whether he's sane. -If there's any doubt about the matter, he is.

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All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.

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I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap.

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Cruel children, crying babies, All grow up as geese and gabies, Hated, as their age increases, By their nephews and their nieces.

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A birdie with a yellow bill Hoped upon the window sill, Cocked his shining eye and said: 'Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-'ead?

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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! Up in the air and over the wall, Till I can see so wide, River and trees and cattle and all Over the countryside. Till I look down on the garden green, Down on the roof so brown- Up in the air I go flying again, Up in the air and down!

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It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year; The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier. The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro, A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane. Autumn leaves and rain, The passion of the gale.

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

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But of works of art little can be said.

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It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point, indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.

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The child that is not clean and neat, With lots of toys and things to eat, He is a naughty child, I'm sure-- Or else his dear Papa is poor.

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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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To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.

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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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Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.

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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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You must suffer me to go my own dark way.

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