Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

You're either my ship's cook-and then you were treated handsome-or Cap'n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang!

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Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.

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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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Youth now flees on feathered foot.

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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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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

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I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.

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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

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It is better to be a fool than to be dead.

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His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object.

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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

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Do not forget that even as "to work is to worship" so to be cheery is to worship also, and to be happy is the first step to being pious.

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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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Flower god, god of the spring, beautiful, bountiful, Cold-dyed shield in the sky, lover of versicles, Here I wander in April Cold, grey-headed; and still to my Heart, Spring comes with a bound, Spring the deliverer, Spring, song-leader in woods, chorally resonant; Spring, flower-planter in meadows, Child-conductor in willowy Fields deep dotted with bloom, daisies and crocuses: Here that child from his heart drinks of eternity: O child, happy are children!

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It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that he is charmed by the look of things and people, and that he wakens every morning with a renewed appetite for work and pleasure. Desire and curiosity are the two eyes through which he sees the world in the most enchanted colours...and the man may squander his estate and come to beggary, but if he keeps these two amulets he is still rich in the possibilities of pleasure.

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When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.

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The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget.

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For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

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It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.

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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.

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