Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

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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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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Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.

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Sit loosely in the saddle.

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The greatest engineering is the engineering of men.

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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.

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A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student.

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To cast in it with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations.

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Here it is about gentlemen of fortune. They lives rough, and they risk swinging, but they eat and drink like fighting-cocks, and when a cruise is done, why, it's hundreds of pounds instead of hundreds of farthings in their pockets.

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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 Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

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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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But we are so fond of life that we have no leisure to entertain the terror of death. It is a honeymoon with us all through, and none of the longest. Small blame to us if we give our whole hearts to this glowing bride of ours, to the appetities, to honour, to the hungry curiosity of the mind, to the pleasure of the eyes in nature, and the pride of our own nimble bodies.

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In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves.

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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.

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There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.

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It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!

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If you would grow great and stately, You must try to walk sedately.

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Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I lay me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be: Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill.

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