Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation.

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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

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

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I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on man’s shoulders; and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure.

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I am not afraid of the truth, if any one could tell it me, but I am afraid of parts of it impertinently uttered.

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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

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To forget oneself is to be happy.

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

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Some places speak distinctly. Certain dark gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwreck.

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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

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If it comes to a swinging, swing all, say I.

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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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Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement?

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We should wipe two words from our vocabulary: gratitude and charity. In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it is not valued; it is received from the hand of friendship, or it is resented.

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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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All I dreamed about Dr. Jekyll was that one man was being pressed into a cabinet, when he swallowed a drug and changed into another being. I awoke and said at once that I had found the missing link for which I had been looking so long, and before I went again to sleep almost every detail of the story, as it stands, was clear to me. Of course, writing it was another thing.

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Everything is true; only the opposite is true too; you must believe both equally or be damned.

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Ice and iron cannot be welded.

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Give us courage and gaiety and the quient mind . . .

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