Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognised by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realised, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.

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Make up your mind to be happy.

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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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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

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

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It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.

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A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.

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Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.

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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

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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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All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.

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We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.

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So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of generous acts.

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Every child can remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies.

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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

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Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference.

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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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To be honest, to be kind-to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation-above all, on the same grim condition to keep friends with himself-here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.

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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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I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe.

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