Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so.

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Benjamin Franklin went through life an altered man because he once paid too dearly for a penny whistle. My concern springs usually from a deeper source, to wit, from having bought a whistle when I did not want one.

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There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science; but it is all round about you, and for the trouble of looking, that you will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life.

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

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Don't ever confuse motion with progress.

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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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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

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Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.

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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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The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

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Money alone is only a mean; it presupposes a man to use it. The rich man can go where he pleases, but perhaps please himself nowhere. He can buy a library or visit the whole world, but perhaps has neither patience to read nor intelligence to see.... The purse may be full and the heart empty. He may have gained the world and lost himself; and with all his wealth around him ... he may live as blank a life as any tattered ditcher.

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In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.

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When we look in to the long avenue of the future, and see the good there is for each one of us to do, we realize, after all, what a beautiful thing it is to work, and to live, and to be happy.

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Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness.

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To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.

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Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.

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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as simple and specious as a statue to the first glance, and yet on examination, as lively and interesting as a forest in detail.

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I who all the Winter through, Cherished other loves than you And kept hands with hoary policy in marriage-bed and pew; Now I know the false and true, For the earnest sun looks through, And my old love comes to meet me in the dawning and the dew.

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A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.

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Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.

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