Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.

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It is the history of our kindnesses that alone make this world tolerable. If it were not for that, for the effect of kind words, kind looks, kind letters . . . I should be inclined to think our life a practical jest in the worst possible spirit.

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The saddest object in civilization, and to my mind the greatest confession of its failure, is the man who can work, who wants work, and who is not allowed to work.

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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.

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Now, to be properly enjoyed, a walking tour should be gone upon alone.... Freedom is of the essence, because you should be able to stop and go on and follow this way or that as the freak takes you.... There should be no cackle of voices at your elbow to jar on the meditative silence of the morning.

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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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I love this quote uttered by the character Widget in The Night Circus. He credits it to Herr Thiessen but knows it is a literary quote by the another author. "Wine is bottled poetry

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I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens.

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The obscurest epoch is to-day.

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I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap.

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

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Make up your mind to be happy.

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The bourgeoisie's weapon is starvation. If as a writer or artist you run counter to their narrow notions they simplyand silently withdraw your means of subsistence. I sometimes wonder how many people of talent are executed in this way every year.

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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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Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield.

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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

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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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When the grass was closely mown, Walking on the lawn alone, In the turf a hole I found, And hid a soldier underground. Spring and daisies came apace; Grasses hide my hiding place; Grasses run like a green sea O'er the lawn up to my knee.

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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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