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All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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As if a man's soul were not too small to begin with, they have dwarfed an narrowed theirs by a life of all work and no play; until here they are at forty, with a listless attention, a mind vacant of all material of amusement, and not one thought to rub against another, while they wait for the train. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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We are three very old friends, Lanyon; we shall not live to make others. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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It may be argued again that dissatisfaction with our life's endeavor springs in some degree from dulness. We require higher tasks, because we do not recognise the height of those we have. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Old is the tree and the fruit good,
Very old and thick the wood.
Woodman, is your courage stout?
Beware! the root is wrapped about
Your mother's heart, your father's bones;
And like the mandrake comes with groans. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door;
Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore
Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn
Disturbs the eternal sleep,
But in the stillness far withdrawn
Our dreamless rest for evermore we keep. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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If you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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A child should always say what's true, And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table: At least as far as he is able. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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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. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone, in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren; the battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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I'll be as silent as the grave. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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There was something strange in my sensations, indescribably new and incredibly sweet. I knew myself, at the first breath of this new life, to be tenfold more wicked and the thought delighted me like wine. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Jew storekeepers have already learned the advantage to be gained from this [unlimited credit]: they lead on the farmer into irretrievable indebtedness, and keep him ever after as their bondslave hopelessly grinding in the mill. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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But, mate, my heart is sore for Christian diet. You mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now? No? Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese
toasted, mostly
and woke up again, and here I were. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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And he began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying I am sorry! -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Had be been Shakespeare, he would then have written Troilus and Cressidato brand the offending sex; but being only a little dog, he began to bite them. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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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. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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It is almost as if the millennium were arrived, when we shall throw our clocks and watches over the housetop, and remember time and seasons no more. Not to keep hours for a lifetime is ... to live forever. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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AWAY with funeral music - set
The pipe to powerful lips -
The cup of life's for him that drinks
And not for him that sips. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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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. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The young demand joy like a right - the old only wish to be spared unbearable pain. Robert Louis Stevenson -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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There were several books on a shelf; one lay beside the tea things open, and Utterson was amazed to find it a copy of a pious work, for which Jekyll had several times expressed a great esteem, annotated, in his own hand with startling blasphemies. Next, -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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It offended him both as a lawyer and as a lover of the sane and customary sides of life, to whom the fanciful was the immodest. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Love- what is love?
A great and aching heart;
Wrung hands;
and silence;
and a long despair -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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These are my politics: to change what we can; to better what we can; but still to bear in mind that man is but a devil weakly fettered by some generous beliefs and impositions; and for no word however sounding, and no cause however just and pious, to relax the stricture on these bonds. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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It was high time, for I now began to be tortured with thirst. The glow of the sun from above, its thousandfold reflection from the waves, the sea-water that fell and dried upon me, caking my very lips with salt, combined to make my throat burn and my brain ache. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular-letter to the friends of him who writes it. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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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. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Instantly the spirit of hell awoke in me and raged. With a transport of glee, I mauled the unresisting body, tasting delight from every blow; and it was not till weariness had begun to succeed, that I was suddenly, in the top fit of my delirium, struck through the heart by a cold thrill of terror. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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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! -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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What are you able to build with your blocks?
Castles and palaces, temples and docks.
Rain may keep raining, and others go roam,
But I can be happy and building at home. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and touched a virginity of sense. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The fog still slept on the wing above the drowned city, where the lamps glimmered like carbuncles; and through the muffle and smother of these fallen clouds, the procession of the town's life was still rolling in through the great arteries with a sound as of a mighty wind. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The physician ... is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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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. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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He is not dead, this friend; not dead, Gone some few, trifling steps ahead, And nearer to the end; So that you, too, once past the bend, Shall meet again, as face to face, this friend You fancy dead. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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It was Hyde, after all, and Hyde alone, that was guilty. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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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. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Hyde?" repeated Lanyon. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Let any one speak long enough, he will get believers. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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And what is the sea?" asked Will.
"The sea!" cried the miller. "Lord help us all, it is the greatest thing God made! -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Make the most of the best and the least of the worst. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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And 'Oh man!' quo he, 'am I no a bonny fighter? -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The ideal story is that of two people who go into love step for step, with a fluttered consciousness, like a pair of children venturing together into a dark room. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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It was a master surgeon, him that ampytated me - out of college and all - Latin by the bucket, and what not; but he was hanged like a dog, and sun-dried like the rest, at Corso Castle. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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For some thoughts, which sure would be the most beautiful, vanish before we can rightly scan their features; as though a god, travelling by our green highways, should but ope the door, give one smiling look into the house, and go again for ever. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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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. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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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. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The true success is to labour. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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If ever a seaman wanted drugs, it's me," he -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Dogs live with man as courtiers 'round a monarch, steeped in the flattery of his notice ... to push their favor in this world of pickings and caresses is, perhaps, the business of their lives. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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I was the giant great and still
That sits upon the pillow-hill,
And sees before him, dale and plain,
The pleasant land of counterpane. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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If you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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A proposition of geometry does not compete with life; and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a work of art. Both are reasonable, both untrue to the crude fact; both inhere in nature, neither represents it. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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I swear to God I will never set eyes on him again. I bind my honour to you that I am done with him in this world. It is all at an end. And indeed he does not want my help; you do not know him as I do; he is safe, he is quite safe; mark my words, he will never more be heard of. ~Jekyll -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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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 -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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ChilYou can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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I am painfully situated, Utterson; my position is a very strange--a very strange one. It is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking. ~Jekyll -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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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. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Now this was one of the things I had been brought up to eschew like disgrace; it being held by my father neither the part of a Christian nor yet of a gentleman to set his own livelihood and fish for that of others, on the cast of painted pasteboard. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The HISPANIOLA still lay where she had anchored; but, sure enough, there was the Jolly Roger
the black flag of piracy
flying from her peak. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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I will make you brooches and toys for your delight
Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night.
I will make a palace fit for you and me
Of green days in forests and blue days at sea. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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But of works of art little can be said.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
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With the half of a broken hope for a pillow at night
That somehow the right is the right
And the smooth shall bloom from the rough:
Lord, if that were enough? -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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looking about him at the cliffs and up at our signboard. "This is a handy cove," says he at length; "and a pleasant -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Lastly no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. It is not for nothing that this "ignoble tobagie" as Michelet calls it, spreads all over the world. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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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. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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We have affairs in different places; and hence railways were invented. Railways separated us infallibly from our friends; and so telegraphs were made that we might communicate speedier at great distances. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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And he took another swallow of the brandy, shaking his great fair head like a man who looks forward to the worst. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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and for the first time began to understand the desperate game that we play in life; and how a thing once done is not to be changed or remedied, by any penitence. But -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of generous acts. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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We now lay in towns, where nobody troubled us with questions; we had floated into civilised life, where people pass without salutation. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to the dust by the many ill things he had done, and raised up again into sober and fearful gratitude by the many he had come so near to doing, yet avoided. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain common work as it comes certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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This Mr Thomson seems a gentleman of some choice qualities, though perhaps a trifle bloody-minded. It would please me none the worse, if (with all his merits) he were soused in the North Sea; for the man, Mr Balfour, is a sore embarrassment. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The veil of self-indulgence was rent from head to foot. I saw my life as a whole. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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And the true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss the joy is to miss all. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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We got together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts imaginable
not pretty to look at, but fellows, by their faces, of the most indomitable spirit. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year;
The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier.
The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro,
A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane.
Autumn leaves and rain,
The passion of the gale. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Those little people, my brownies, who do one half of my work for me while I am fast asleep, and in all human likelihood do the rest for me as well, when I am wide awake and fondly suppose I do for myself. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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I was slowly losing hold of my original and better self, and becoming slowly incorporated with my second and worse. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Come, come, Cap'n, be just," returned the other. "There's no call to be angry with me in earnest. I'm on'y a chara'ter in a sea story. I don't really exist. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The woman who can manage, like the man who can fight, must never shrink from an encounter. The knight must not disgrace his weapons. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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You may imagine how I felt when I heard this abominable old rogue addressing another in the very same words of flattery as he had used to me. I think, if I had been able, that I would have killed him through the barrel. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Scared by the thought , brooded awhile on his own past, groping in all the corners of memory, lest by chance some jack-in-the-box of an old iniquity, should leap to light there. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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O God!' I screamed, and 'O God!' again and again; for there before my eyes
pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death
there stood Henry Jekyll! -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Like all men is distress,Gideon decided to do what Napoleon, what Shakespeare, what Alexander the Great would have done. There remained only the minor question, what is that? -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Hosts loved to detain the dry lawyer, when the light-hearted and loose-tongued had already their foot on the threshold; they liked to sit awhile in his unobtrusive company, practicing for solitude, sobering their minds in the man's rich silence after the expense and strain of gaiety. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Do you know Poole," he said, looking up, "that you and I are about to place ourselves in a position of some peril? -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Going for character: why not now, and where you stand? -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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What a number of things a river does, by simply following Gravity in the innocence of its heart! -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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By his own account he must have lived his life among some of the wickedest men that God ever allowed upon the sea, and the language in which he told these stories shocked our plain country people almost as much as the crimes that he described. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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If you would grow great and stately,
You must try to walk sedately. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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To cast in it with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Here it is about gentlemen of fortune. They lives rough, and they risk swinging, but they eat and drink like fighting-cocks, and when a cruise is done, why, it's hundreds of pounds instead of hundreds of farthings in their pockets. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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It was one January morning, very early - a pinching, frosty morning - the cove all grey with hoar-frost, the ripple lapping softly on the stones, the sun still low and only touching the hilltops and shining far to seaward. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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I know what happiness is, for I have done good work. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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As in all other places of resort, one type predominated: people in the prime of youth, with every show of intelligence and sensibility in their appearance, but with little promise of strength or the quality that makes success. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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He who has learned to love an art or science has wisely laid up riches against the day of riches. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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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. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Really don't choose every day from the harvest you experience but from the seeds you plant -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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But what is the black spot, captain? -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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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. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Blows the wind to-day, and the sun and the rain are flying,
Blows the wind on the moors to-day and now,
Where about the graves of the martyrs the whaups are crying,
My heart remembers how! -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting as weeding. I went crazy over the outdoor work, and at last had to confine myself to the house, or literature must have gone by the board. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The smack of California earth shall linger on the palate of your grandson. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Things looked at patiently from one side after another generally end by showing a side that is beautiful. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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For these two were old friends, old mates both at school and college, both thorough respecters of themselves and each other, and, what does not always follow, men who thoroughly enjoyed each other's company. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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I believe you to be strictly honorable.'He thoughtfully emptied his cup. 'I wish I could add you were intelligent,' he went on, knocking on his head with his knuckles. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Alan," cried I, "what makes ye so good to me? What makes ye care for such a thankless fellow?"
Deed, and I don't, know" said Alan. "For just precisely what I thought I liked about ye, was that ye never quarrelled: - and now I like ye better! -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel! -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Black mail I suppose; an honest man paying through the nose for some of the capers of his youth. Black Mail House is what I call the place with the door, in consequence. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends? -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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But I was still cursed with my duality of purpose; and as the first edge of my penitence wore off, the lower side of me, so long indulged, so recently chained down, began to growl for licence. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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I was still cursed with my duality of purpose. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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A mendacious umbrella is a sign of great moral degradation. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Away down the river,
A hundred miles or more,
Other little children
Shall bring my boats ashore. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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That child of Hell had nothing human; nothing lived in him but fear and hatred. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Be what you are, and become what you are capable of becoming. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Cruel children, crying babies,
All grow up as geese and gabies,
Hated, as their age increases,
By their nephews and their nieces. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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His affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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... Bear up until you see you're gaining. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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I slept after the prostration of the day, with a stringent and profound slumber which not even the nightmares that wrung me could avail to break. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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A birdie with a yellow bill Hoped upon the window sill, Cocked his shining eye and said: 'Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-'ead? -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Them that die'll be the lucky ones. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Hand-barrow - a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man, his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulder of his soiled blue coat, his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails, and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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It was no longer the fear of the gallows, it was the horror of being Hyde that racked me. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Strange indeed is the attraction of the forest for the minds of men. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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We do not go to cowards for tender dealing; there is nothing so cruel as panic; the man who has least fear for his own carcase, has most time to consider others. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Come back? There is no coming back, young ladies, on the impetuous stream of life. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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This simple accident of falling in love is as beneficial as it is astonishing. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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It is a good thing to make a bridge of gold to a flying enemy -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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He who indulges habitually in the intoxicating pleasures of imagination, for the very reason that he reaps a greater pleasure than others, must resign himself to a keener pain, a more intolerable and utter prostration. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The San Francisco Stock Exchange was the place that continuously pumped up the savings of the lower classes into the pockets of the millionaires. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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We can only know others by ourselves. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart; She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The rain is falling all around, It falls on field and tree, It rains on the umbrellas here, And on the ships at sea. - Rain -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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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. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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When the teeth are shut the tongue is at home. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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But now that was all gone by, and had left her neither happier nor wiser; and the best she could do with her mornings was to come up here into the cold church and juggle for a slice of heaven. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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God bless me, the man seems hardly human! Something troglodytic, shall we say? -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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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. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The bargain might appear unequal; but there was still another consideration in the scales; for while Jekyll would suffer smartingly in the fires of abstinence, Hyde would be not even conscious of all that he had lost. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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And still the figure had no face by which he might know it; even in his dreams, it had no face ... -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Sometimes the isle was thick with savages, with whom we fought, sometimes full of dangerous animals that hunted us, but in all my fancies nothing occurred to me so strange as our actual adventures. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Make up your mind to be happy. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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But besides that I was of an unforgiving disposition from my birth, slow to take offense, slower to forget it, and now incensed both against my companion and myself. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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This is a handy cove, and a pleasant sittyated grog-shop. Much company, mate? -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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This is a handy cove," says he at length; "and a pleasant sittyated grog-shop. Much company, mate?" My father told him no, very little company, the more was the pity. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Call up your vermin to your back, sir, and fall on! The sooner the clash begins, the sooner ye'll taste this steel throughout your vitals. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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It was a bitter cold winter, with long, hard frosts and heavy gales; -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The world has no room for cowards. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Although I express myself with some degree of pleasantry, the purport of my words is entirely serious. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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A knowledge that another has felt as we have felt, and seen things not much otherwise than we have seen them, will continue to the end to be one of life's choicest blessings. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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In winter I get up at night,
and dress by yellow candlelight,
In summer, quite the other day,
I have to go to bed by day -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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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. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Who's the best shot?" asked the captain.
Mr. Trelawney, out and away," said I.
Mr. Trelawney, will you please pick me off one of these men, sir? [Israel]Hands, if possible. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Both sides of me were in dead earnest. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Ethics are my veiled mistress; I love them, but know not what they are. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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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. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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I believe in an ultimate decency of things. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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If you would on'y lay your course, and a p'int to windward, you would ride in carriages, you would. But not you! I know you. You'll have your mouthful of rum tomorrow, and go hang. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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It is always a bad sign when the lower classes laugh: their taste in humour is both poor and sinister; -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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I want to know, Barbecue: how long are -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Go, little book, and wish to all
Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall,
A bin of wine, a spice of wit,
A house with lawns enclosing it,
A living river by the door,
A nightingale in the sycamore! -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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His interest never flagged. He would hear the same word twenty times with profound refreshment, mispronounce it in several different ways, and forget it again with magical celerity. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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To the old our mouths are always partly closed; we must swallow our obvious retorts and listen. They sit above our heads, on life's raised dais, and appeal at once to our respect and pity. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Look out for squalls when you find it, and you will readily believe how little taste I found -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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At that time my virtue slumbered; my evil, kept awake by ambition, was alert and swift to seize the occasion. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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I was once more face to face with the big bonfire that occupies the kernel of our system. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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he belonged to that class of men who think a weak head the ornament of women - an opinion invariably punished in this life. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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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. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Poor, harmless paper, that might have gone to print a Shakespeare on, and was instead so clumsily defaced with nonsense. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Not every man is so great a coward as he thinks he is - nor yet so good a Christian. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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He was in that humour when a man will cut off his nose to spite his face -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often makes its entrance from the mother's corpse. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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We must go on, because we can't turn back. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Noble disappointment, noble self-denial are not to be admired, not even to be pardoned, if they bring bitterness. It is one thing to enter the kingdom of heaven maim; another to maim yourself and stay without. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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the doctor, "that if you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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A little amateur painting in water colors shows the innocent and the quiet mind. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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If a man knows he will sooner or later be robbed upon a journey, he will have a bottle of the best in every inn, and look upon all his extravagances as so much gained upon the thieves. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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I know; I don't care to die either. But when whining mendeth nothing, wherefore whine? -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Baldric; but he made a remark that seems worthy of record. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song! -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Captain," said the squire, "the house is quite invisible from the ship. It must be the flag they are aiming at. Would it not be wiser to take it in?"
"Strike my colours!" cried the captain, "No sir, not I"... -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The mark of a Scot of all classes [is that] he ... remembers and cherishes the memory of his forebears, good or bad; and there burns alive in him a sense of identity with the dead even to the twentieth generation. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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We had each of us some whimsy in the brain, which we believed more than anything else, and which discoloured all experience to its own shade. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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I've a grand memory for forgetting, -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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I felt no repugnance- I knew I was wicked, ten times more wicked, and that thought both braced and delighted me. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Men have before hired bravos to transact their crimes, while their own person and reputation say under shelter. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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No baggage - there was the secret of existence. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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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 a-field. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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This grove, that was now so peaceful, must then have rung with cries, I thought; and even with the thought I could believe I heard it ringing still. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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I engaged him on the spot to be ship's cook. Long John Silver, he is called, and has lost a leg; but that I regarded as a recommendation, -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Now, we know that life is only a stage to play the fool upon as long as the part amuses us. There was one more convenience lacking to modern comfort; a decent, easy way to quit that stage; the back stairs to liberty; or, as I said this moment, Death's private door. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The horror with which blind and unjust law regards an action never attaches to the doer in the eyes of those who love him. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The saints are the sinners who keep on trying. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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All day he hung round the cove or upon the cliffs with a brass telescope; -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Happiness, eternal or temporal, is not the reward that mankind seeks, Happinesses are but his wayside companions. His soul is in the journey and in the struggle. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Good and evil are so close as to be chained together in the soul. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The workpeople, to be sure, were most annoyingly slow, but time cured that. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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He should have done all things otherwise: poignant regrets, weary, incessant toiling of the mind to change what was unchangeable, to plan what was now useless, to be the architect of the irrevocable past. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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It was thus rather the exacting nature of my aspirations than any particular degradation in my faults, that made me what I was, and, with even a deeper trench than in the majority of men, severed in me those provinces of good and ill which divide and compound man's dual nature. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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man is not truly one, but two -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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There is nothing but God's grace. We walk upon it; we breathe it; we live and die by it; it makes the nails and axles of the universe. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The outer world, from which we cower into our houses, seemed after all a gentle habitable place; and night after night a man's bed, it seemed, was laid and waiting for him in the fields, where God keeps an open house. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man? -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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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? -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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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. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Youth now flees on feathered foot. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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I began to perceive more deeply than it has ever yet been stated, the trembling immateriality, the mistlike transience, of this seemingly so solid body in which we walk attired. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Times are changed with him who marries; there are no more by-path meadows where you may innocently linger, but the road lies long and straight and dusty to the grave -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Well, now I tell you, I never seen good come o' goodness yet. Him as strikes first is my fancy; dead men don't bite; them's my views - amen, so be it. And -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Cap'n," said he, at length, with that same uncomfortable smile, "here's my old shipmate, O'Brien; s'pose you was to heave him overboard. I ain't partic'lar as a rule, and I don't take no blame for settling his hash; but I don't reckon him ornamental, now do you? -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Everyday life is a stimulating mixture of order and haphazardry. The sun rises and sets on schedule but the wind bloweth where it listeth. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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It is nothing to get wet; but the misery of these individual pricks of cold all over my body at the same instant of time made me flail the water with my paddle like a madman. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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My tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky;
It's time to take the window to see Leerie going by;
For every night at tea-time and before you take your seat,
With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Sing a song of seasons; something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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There is but one art, to omit! Oh, if I knew how to omit I would ask no other knowledge. A man who knows how to omit would make an Iliad of a daily paper. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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It was Silver's voice, and before I had heard a dozen words, I would not have shown myself for all the world. I lay there, trembling and listening, in the extreme of fear and curiostiy, for, in those dozen words, I understood that the lives of all the honest men aboard depended on me alone. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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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. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Nothing made by brute force lasts. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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There is a kind of gaping admiration that would fain roll Shakespeare and Bacon into one, to have a bigger thing to gape at; and a class of men who cannot edit one author without disparaging all others. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Ua maomao ka lani, ua kahaea luna, Ua pipi ka maka o ka hoku. (The heavens were fair, they stretched above, Many were the eyes of the stars.) -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Half a capital and half a country town, the whole city leads a double existence; it has long trances of the one and flashes of the other; like the king of the Black Isles, it is half alive and half a monumental marble. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Try as I like to find the way, I never can get back by day, Nor can remember plain and clear The curious music that I hear. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Partly from the damping influence of this alarm, partly to rest Silver and the sick folk, the whole party sat down as soon as they had gained the brow of the ascent. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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15 men on the dead mans chest - yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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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. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Every child can remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr. Hyde -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The more things are wrong the more we must act as if all were right. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Idleness so called, which does not consist in doing nothing, but in doing a great deal not recognized in the dogmatic formularies of the ruling class, has as good a right to state its position as industry itself. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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To be honest ... here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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and I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me; and if I'm not to have my rum now I'm a poor old hulk on a lee shore, my -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The sticks break, the stones crumble, The eternal altars tilt and tumble, Sanctions and tales dislimn like mist About the amazed evangelist. He stands unshook from age to youth Upon one pin-point of the truth. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The best things in life are nearest, breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Able to hear, I reckon; leastways, your ears is big enough. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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All by myself I have to go, With none to tell me what to do - All alone beside the streams And up the mountain-sides of dreams. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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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. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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If it comes to a swinging, swing all, say I. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Dead men don't bite -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Trusty, dusky, vivid, true,
With eyes of gold and bramble-dew,
Steel-true and blade-straight,
The great artificer made my mate. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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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. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The secret to a happiness is a small ego. And a big wallet. Good wine helps, too. But that's not really a secret, is it? -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Where is he wounded? -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a legend. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Well! marriage is like death, it comes to all. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor of the mind. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them, Fair the fall of songs When the singer sings them. Still they are carolled and said - On wings they are carried - After the singer is dead And the maker buried. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The moon has a face like the clock in the hall;
She shines on thieves on the garden wall,
On streets and fields and harbour quays,
And birdies asleep in the forks of the trees. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The essence of love is kindness. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The sun was getting up, and mortal white he looked about the cutwater. But, there he was, and the six all dead - dead and buried. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Wild horses wouldn't draw it from you? -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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A friend is a gift you give yourself. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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As I looked there came, I thought a change - he seemed to swell - his face became suddenly black and the features seemed to melt and alter ... -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Being happy enables you to be free from domination by the outside world. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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For will anyone dare to tell me that business is more entertaining than fooling among boats? He must have never seen a boat, or never seen an office, who says so. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Watch for the ace of spades, which is the sign of death, and the ace of clubs, which designates the official of the night. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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In the bottle the acids were long ago resolved; the imperial dye had softened with time, as the colour grows richer in stained windows; and the glow of hot autumn afternoons on hillside vineyards, was ready to be set free and to disperse the fogs of London. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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There is a romance about all those who are abroad in the black hours. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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If this is death, it is easier than life. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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A moment before I had been safe of all men's respect, wealthy, beloved - the cloth laying for me in the dining room at home; and now I was the common quarry of mankind, hunted, houseless, a known murderer, thrall to the gallows. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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To miss the joy is to miss everything. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Loving God, help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds, and the worship of the wise men. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call! -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Give to me the life I love, Let the lave go by me, Give the jolly heaven above And the byway nigh me. Bed in the bush with the stars to see, Bread I dip in the river There's the life for a man like me, There's the life for ever. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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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. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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We fall in love, we drink hard, we run to and fro upon the earth like frightened sheep. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Once I guessed right, And I got credit by't; Thrice I guessed wrong, And I kept my credit on. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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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. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he often laments his youth a deal more bitterly and with a more genuine intonation. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Youth is wholly experimental. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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We must lay to, if you please, and keep a bright lookout. It's trying on a man, I know. It would be pleasanter to come to blows. But there's no help for it till we know our men. Lay to, and whistle for a wind, that's my view. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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A great part of life consists of contemplating what we cannot cure. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The obscurest epoch is today. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Then it was that there came into my head the first of the mad notions that contributed so much to saving our lives. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Rightly looked upon,' mused Gotthold, 'it is ourselves that we cannot forgive, when we refuse forgiveness to our friend. Some strand of our own misdoing is involved in every quarrel. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Thems that die'll be the lucky ones. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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...I'll stake my wig there's fever here. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Ah, said Silver, it were fortunate for me that I had Hawkins here. You would have let old john be cut to bits, and never given it a thought, doctor.
'Not a thought,' replied Dr. Livesey cheerily. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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A trifle more of that man,'he would say,'and I shall explode. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Of what shall we be proud of if we are not proud of our friends? -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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And indeed bad as his clothes were and coarsely as he spoke, he had none of the appearance of a man who sailed before the mast, but seemed like a mate or skipper accustomed to be obeyed or to strike. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener; -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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To travel hopefully is better than to have arrived. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Our affections and beliefs are wiser than we; the best that is in us is better than we can understand; for it is grounded beyond experience, and guides us, blindfold but safe, from one age on to another. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Sit loosely in the saddle. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Scotland has no unity except on the map -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Nobody speaks of a beautifful view for 5 minutes -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask." "A -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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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. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Time which none can bind,
While flowing fast away, leaves love behind. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Not Diana herself, although this was more of a Venus after all, could have done a graceful thing more gracefully. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Do you call that a head on your shoulders, or a blessed dead-eye?" cried Long John. "Don't rightly know, don't you! Perhaps you don't happen to rightly know who you was speaking to, perhaps? Come, now, what was he jawing - v'yages, cap'ns, ships? Pipe up! What was it?" "We -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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And altogether I paid pretty dear for my monthly fourpenny piece, in the shape of these abominable fancies. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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I awoke on the fifth morning with a brightness of anticipation that seemed to challenge fate. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Give us courage and gaiety and the quient mind ... -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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There is but one art, to omit. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The full truth of this odd matter is what the world has long been looking for and the public curiosity is sure to welcome. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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I have lost confidence in myself. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Ah, there," said Morgan, "that comed of sp'iling Bibles."
"That comes
as you call it
of being arrant asses," retorted the doctor. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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I wish you to judge for me entirely,' was the reply. 'I have lost confidence in myself. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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He recollected his courage. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The humiliation of their arms and the loss of Alsace and Lorraine made a sore pull on the endurance of this sensitive people; and their hearts are still hot, not so much against Germany as against the Empire. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Now, just after sundown, when all my work was over and I was on my way to my berth, it occurred to me that I should like an apple. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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After the moon went down, the heaven was a thing to wonder at for stars. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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I sometimes think if we knew all, we should be more glad to get away. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The greatest engineering is the engineering of men. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The world was made before English language, and seemingly upon a different design. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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When I was a boy, I was a bit puzzled, and hardly knew weather it was myself or the world that was curious and worth looking into. Now I know that it is myself, and stick to that. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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To forget oneself is to be happy. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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A true writer is someone the gods have called to the task. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for a practical existence. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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But a word once spoken who can recapture it? -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Dirk without the scabbard. This, then, I concealed -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Whenever the moon and stars are set,
Whenever the wind is high,
All night long in the dark and wet,
A man goes riding by. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Ice and iron cannot be welded. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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subjective disturbance -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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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. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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How that personage haunted my dreams, I need scarcely tell you. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Alan," I cried, "I can stand no more of this." "Ye'll have to sit it then, Davie, -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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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. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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No man lives in the external truth, among salt and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied walls. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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I never drew a picture of anything that was before me but always from fancy, a sure sign of the absence of artistic eyesight; and I illustrated my lack of real feeling for art by a very early speech: 'Mama,' said I, 'I have drawed a man. Shall I draw his soul now? -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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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. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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And yet when I looked upon that ugly idol in the glass I was conscious of no repugnance,rather a leap of welcome. This too, was myself. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Saints are sinners who kept on going. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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I hate to write, but I love to have written. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The child that is not clean and neat,
With lots of toys and things to eat,
He is a naughty child, I'm sure
Or else his dear Papa is poor. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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I smoke a pipe abroad, because
To all cigars I much prefer it,
And as I scorn you social laws,
My choice has nothing to deter it. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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One more step, Mr. Hands," said I, "and I'll blow your brains out! Dead men don't bite, you know," I added with a chuckle. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Curiosity and timidity fought a long battle in his heart. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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We pass our lives entirely in the search for extravagant adventures; and there is no extravagance with which we are not capable of sympathy -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Doctors is all swabs. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Nothing like a little judicious levity. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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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. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk; to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Palm Key he got itt," and some other snatches, mostly single words and unintelligible. I could not help wondering who it was that had "got itt," and what "itt" was -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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It was for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills. Sir, if that was my master, why had he a mask upon his face? -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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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. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Idleness does not consist in doing nothing, but in doing a great deal not recognized in the dogmatic formualries of the ruling class. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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-I am not sure whether he's sane.
-If there's any doubt about the matter, he is. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Children are certainly too good to be true. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Long John Silver unearthed a very competent man for a mate, a man named Arrow. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Everyone lives by selling something. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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about as emotional as a bagpipe. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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And yet Alan had behaved like a child, and (what is worse) a treacherous child. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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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. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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You can kill the body but not the spirit. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Yes," he thought; "he is a doctor, he must know his own state and that his days are counted; and the knowledge is more than he can bear. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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We fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of fear and pain. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Age may have one side, but assuredly Youth has the other. There is nothing more certain than that both are right, except perhaps that both are wrong. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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If thy morals make thee dreary, depend upon it they are wrong -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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A good conscience is eight parts of courage. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The captain has said too much or he has said too little, and I'm bound to say that I require an explanation of his words. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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There is a certain frame of mind to which a cemetery is, if not an antidote, at least an alleviation. If you are in a fit of the blues, go nowhere else. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Faster than fairies, faster than witches,
Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;
And charging along like troops in a battle,
All through the meadows the horses and cattle -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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It's a chief principle in military affairs to go where ye are least expected. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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He was a very silent man by custom. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The fact is, we are much more afraid of life than our ancestors, and cannot find it inourhearts either tomarry or not tomarry.Marriage isterrifying, but so is a cold and forlorn old age. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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I cannot tell if I was more tired or more grateful. Both at least, I was: tired as I never was before that night; and grateful to Gd as I trust I have been often, though never with more cause. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet somehow lovable. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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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. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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That is the bitterness of art: you see a good effect, and some nonsense about sense continually intervenes. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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You may lay to that. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terward - Long John Silver -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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For marriage is like life in this - that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The Cigarette had a mackintosh which put him more or less above these contrarieties. But I had to bear the brunt uncovered. I began to remember that nature was a woman. My companion, in a rosier temper, listened with great satisfaction to my Jeremiads, and ironically concurred. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The drum, at any rate, from its martial voice and notable physiological effect, nay, even from its cumbrous and comical shape, stands alone among the instruments of noise. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret element of gusto. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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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. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule), no woman should marry a man who does not smoke. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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He was breaking his fast on white wine and raw onions, in order to keep up the character of martyr, I conclude. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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yo ho ho and a bottle of rum -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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And a brave lad you were, and smart too," answered Silver, shaking hands so heartily that all the barrel shook, "and a finer figurehead for a gentleman of fortune I never clapped my eyes on. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Sightseeing is the art of disappointment. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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STORY OF THE DOOR Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet somehow lovable. At friendly meetings, and when the wine was to his taste, something -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the civilised mind striving to express itself under adverse circumstances as we have ever met with. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The man's tongue is fit to frighten the French. Another fever."
Ah, there," said Morgan, "that comed of sp'iling Bibles."
That comed
as you call it
of being arrant asses. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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You have no idea, unless you have tried it, how endlessly long is a summer's day, that you measure out only by hunger, and bring to an end only when you are drowsy. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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This is still the strangest thing in all man's travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese
toasted mostly. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Sank or plundered. The sums are the scoundrel's share, -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others ... -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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He felt ready to face the devil, and strutted in the ballroom with the swagger of a cavalier. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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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. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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but you're as smart as paint. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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One morning, very early, when the sun was up,I rose and found the shiny dew on every buttercup -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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After all, I reflected, I was like my neighbours; and then I smiled, comparing myself with other men, comparing my active goodwill with the lazy cruelty of their neglect. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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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. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunity; -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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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. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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I wish these flies would piss off. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Wine is bottled poetry. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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You must suffer me to go my own dark way. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The spirit of delight comes in small ways. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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There is indeed one element in human destiny that not blindness itself can controvert: whatever else we are intended to do, we are not intended to succeed; failure is the fate allotted. It is so in every art and study; it is so above all in the continent art of living well. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Captain," said I, -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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...the narrow arched entries that continually vomited passengers. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as single and specious as a statue to the first glance, and yet, on examination, as lively and interesting as a forest in detail. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The spirit, Sir, is one of mockery. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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For no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Take care of each other. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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To My Mother
You too, my mother, read my rhymes
For love of unforgotten times,
And you may chance to hear once more
The little feet along the floor. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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There is no music like a little river's ... It takes the mind out-of-doors ... and ... it quiets a man down like saying his prayers. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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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. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Everything is true; only the opposite is true too; you must believe both equally or be damned. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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He had hobbled down there that morning, -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Take a cutlass, him that dares, and I'll see the colour of his inside, crutch and all, before that pipe's empty. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Don't ever confuse motion with progress. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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we cleared out of the river, and he had the -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement? -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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A friend is somebody who loves us with understanding, as well as emotion. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Let the sofa be mountains, the carpet be sea,
There I'll establish a city for me. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight! -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Well!' I said. 'And suppose I had come round after?'
'I like you more better now,' said she. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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They were kind when it occurred to them, -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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It takes hard writing to make easy reading. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Anyone can carry their burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do their work, however hard, for one day. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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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. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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I often think the happiest consequences seem to follow when a gentelman consults his lawyer, and takes all the law allows him. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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With a strong strong glow of courage, drank off the potion. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Sir Oliver - that knows more of law than honesty - I -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Nobody more welcome than yourself, -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning. -- Robert Louis Stevenson