Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they disengage us from ourselves, they constrain us to the acquaintance of others; and they show us the web of experience, but with a singular change-that monstrous, consuming ego of ours being, nonce, struck out.

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The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

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It takes hard writing to make easy reading.

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For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling world reach you no more.

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And this shall be for music when no one else is near, The fine song for singing, the rare song to hear! That only I remember, that only you admire, Of the broad road that stretches and the roadside fire.

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Really don't choose every day from the harvest you experience but from the seeds you plant

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One more touch of the bow, smell of the virginal Green - one more, and my bosom Feels new life with an ecstasy.

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Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.

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If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.

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

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I know what happiness is, for I have done good work.

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Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body.

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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

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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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A good conscience is eight parts of courage.

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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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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

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Of what shall we be proud of if we are not proud of our friends?

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Must we to bed indeed? Well then, Let us arise and go like men, And face with an undaunted tread The long black passage up to bed.

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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

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