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Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I lived on rum, I tell you. It’s been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens Picture Quote #1

Since hate poisons the soul, don’t cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy Picture Quote #1

To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life Picture Quote #1

If we take matrimony at it’s lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student Picture Quote #1

The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys Picture Quote #1

We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Anyone can carry their burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do their work, however hard, for one day Picture Quote #1

Do not measure success by today’s harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Things looked at patiently from one side after another generally end by showing a side that is beautiful Picture Quote #1

Every child can remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies Picture Quote #1

I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap Picture Quote #1

Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak Picture Quote #1

This profusion of eccentricities, this dream in masonry and living rock is not a drop scene in a theatre, but a city in the world of reality Picture Quote #1

His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object Picture Quote #1

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself (Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes) 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 Quotes) I lived on rum, I tell you. It’s been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me (Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete (Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes) 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 Quotes) I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens (Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes) Since hate poisons the soul, don’t cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy (Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes) To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life (Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes) If we take matrimony at it’s lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police (Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes) 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 Quotes) A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation (Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes) A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student (Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes) The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances (Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear (Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Anyone can carry their burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do their work, however hard, for one day (Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes) Do not measure success by today’s harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today (Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Things looked at patiently from one side after another generally end by showing a side that is beautiful (Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes) 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 Quotes) I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap (Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes) Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak (Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes) This profusion of eccentricities, this dream in masonry and living rock is not a drop scene in a theatre, but a city in the world of reality (Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes) His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object (Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes)

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