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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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say ""give them up,"" for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong
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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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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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Every day we delay this decision, that's another day we don't have extra officers on the road,
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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?
bloodless books good mighty substitute
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
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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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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catch words.
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Let first the onion flourish there, Rose among the roots, the maiden-fair Wine scented and poetic soul of the capacious salad bowl.
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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.
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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.
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I hate cynicism a great deal worse than I do the devil; unless perhaps the two were the same thing