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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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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The world is so full of a number of things man sure should all be as happy as kings
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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
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An ivory-faced and silvery-haired old woman opened the door. She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent.
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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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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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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
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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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The saints are the sinners who keep on going
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A friend is a present you give to yourself.