Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Louis Balfour Stevensonwas a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and A Child's Garden of Verses...
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I hate cynicism a great deal worse than I do the devil; unless perhaps the two were the same thing
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I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgment.
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I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something.
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To make our idea of 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.
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To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness - these are the gifts which money cannot buy
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You cannot run away from a weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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Trusty, dusky, vivid, true, With eyes of gold and bramble-dew, Steel-true and blade-straight, The great artificer made my mate.
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For God's sake, give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself
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No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable.
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Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it.
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Every one lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it
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Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that
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It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunity.