Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.

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Take care of each other.

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I wish these flies would piss off.

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There were nights when he took a deal more rum and water than his head could carry; and then he would sometimes sit and sing his wicked old wild sea-songs, minding nobody... Often I have heard the house shaking with Yo-ho-ho and a bottle and rum, all the neighbours joining in for dear life with the fear of death upon them and each singing louder than the other to avoid remark. Fiften men on the dead man's chest, Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil have done for the rest. Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!

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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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Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.

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Some day...after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you.

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In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.

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Let first the onion flourish there, Rose among roots, the maiden-fair, Wine-scented and poetic soul Of the capacious salad bowl.

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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

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He who has learned to love an art or science has wisely laid up riches against the day of riches.

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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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Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.

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When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.

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If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.

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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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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

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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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Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy.

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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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