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Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life. The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: I wish these flies would piss off. I wish these flies would piss off.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: Youth is wholly experimental. Youth is wholly experimental.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police. Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap. I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth. Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.
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. 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: Watch for the ace of spades, which is the sign of death, and the ace of clubs, which designates the official of the night. 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 quotes: Thems that die'll be the lucky ones. Thems that die'll be the lucky ones.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: Trusty, dusky, vivid, true,With eyes of gold and bramble-dew,Steel-true and blade-straight,The great artificer made my mate. 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 quotes: Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheesetoasted mostly. Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese
toasted mostly.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: 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. 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 quotes: This is still the strangest thing in all man's travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories. This is still the strangest thing in all man's travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: The best things in life are nearest, breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet. The best things in life are nearest, breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener; They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener;
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances. The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life. To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: 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. 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 quotes: We can only know others by ourselves. We can only know others by ourselves.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend. 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 quotes: Old and young, we are all on our last cruise. Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so. 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 quotes: Sit loosely in the saddle. Sit loosely in the saddle.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind. 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 quotes: It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it. It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind. 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 quotes: Dead men don't bite Dead men don't bite
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions. The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy. Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: Well!' I said. 'And suppose I had come round after?''I like you more better now,' said she. Well!' I said. 'And suppose I had come round after?'
'I like you more better now,' said she.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: Let first the onion flourish there,Rose among roots, the maiden-fair,Wine-scented and poetic soulOf the capacious salad bowl. 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 quotes: AWAY with funeral music - setThe pipe to powerful lips -The cup of life's for him that drinksAnd not for him that sips. 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 quotes: Going for character: why not now, and where you stand? Going for character: why not now, and where you stand?
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: I believe in an ultimate decency of things. I believe in an ultimate decency of things.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses. Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. 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 quotes: 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. 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 quotes: And still the figure had no face by which he might know it; even in his dreams, it had no face ... And still the figure had no face by which he might know it; even in his dreams, it had no face ...
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel! If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: To miss the joy is to miss everything. To miss the joy is to miss everything.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: The saints are the sinners who keep on trying. The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: Things looked at patiently from one side after another generally end by showing a side that is beautiful. Things looked at patiently from one side after another generally end by showing a side that is beautiful.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand. Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunity; It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunity;
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: Do you know Poole," he said, looking up, "that you and I are about to place ourselves in a position of some peril? 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 quotes: Men have before hired bravos to transact their crimes, while their own person and reputation say under shelter. Men have before hired bravos to transact their crimes, while their own person and reputation say under shelter.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else. You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner. The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: I often think the happiest consequences seem to follow when a gentelman consults his lawyer, and takes all the law allows him. 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 quotes: Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things. Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring. My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: The young demand joy like a right - the old only wish to be spared unbearable pain. Robert Louis Stevenson The young demand joy like a right - the old only wish to be spared unbearable pain. Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: Time which none can bind,While flowing fast away, leaves love behind. Time which none can bind,
While flowing fast away, leaves love behind.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: There is a romance about all those who are abroad in the black hours. There is a romance about all those who are abroad in the black hours.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me. I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: If you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife If you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference. Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: Take care of each other. Take care of each other.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: Well! marriage is like death, it comes to all. Well! marriage is like death, it comes to all.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: 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. 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 quotes: The spirit of delight comes in small ways. The spirit of delight comes in small ways.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: And 'Oh man!' quo he, 'am I no a bonny fighter? And 'Oh man!' quo he, 'am I no a bonny fighter?
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: 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. 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 quotes: 15 men on the dead mans chest - yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum 15 men on the dead mans chest - yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: Let the sofa be mountains, the carpet be sea,There I'll establish a city for me. Let the sofa be mountains, the carpet be sea,
There I'll establish a city for me.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly. Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: To travel hopefully is better than to have arrived. To travel hopefully is better than to have arrived.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: The HISPANIOLA still lay where she had anchored; but, sure enough, there was the Jolly Rogerthe black flag of piracyflying from her peak. 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 quotes: In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for a practical existence. In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for a practical existence.
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. 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: It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect. It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: but you're as smart as paint. but you're as smart as paint.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: ChilYou can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. ChilYou can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort. Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: It takes hard writing to make easy reading. It takes hard writing to make easy reading.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: 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. 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 quotes: In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today. Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: Poor, harmless paper, that might have gone to print a Shakespeare on, and was instead so clumsily defaced with nonsense. Poor, harmless paper, that might have gone to print a Shakespeare on, and was instead so clumsily defaced with nonsense.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: Cruel children, crying babies,All grow up as geese and gabies,Hated, as their age increases,By their nephews and their nieces. 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 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. 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: ...I'll stake my wig there's fever here. ...I'll stake my wig there's fever here.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: 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. 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 quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me. 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 quotes: In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel. In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it. We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: Make up your mind to be happy. Make up your mind to be happy.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance. The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: Not every man is so great a coward as he thinks he is - nor yet so good a Christian. Not every man is so great a coward as he thinks he is - nor yet so good a Christian.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: Nobody more welcome than yourself, Nobody more welcome than yourself,
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: If ever a seaman wanted drugs, it's me," he If ever a seaman wanted drugs, it's me," he
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: But a word once spoken who can recapture it? But a word once spoken who can recapture it?
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: And altogether I paid pretty dear for my monthly fourpenny piece, in the shape of these abominable fancies. And altogether I paid pretty dear for my monthly fourpenny piece, in the shape of these abominable fancies.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes: Anyone can carry their burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do their work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can carry their burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do their work, however hard, for one day.

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