Robert Louis Stevenson
Quotations
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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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“The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.” -Robert Louis Stevenson
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“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.” -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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“Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.” -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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“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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“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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“Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.” -Robert Louis Stevenson
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“Wine is bottled poetry.” -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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“To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.” -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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“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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“In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.” -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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“Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.” -Robert Louis Stevenson
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“Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.” -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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“It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.” -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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“Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.” -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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“Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.” -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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“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.” -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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“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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“Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.” -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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“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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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords. – 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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