Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis 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...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth13 November 1850
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To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.
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To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.
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Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.
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Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
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Jew storekeepers have already learned the advantage to be gained from this [unlimited credit]: they lead on the farmer into irretrievable indebtedness, and keep him ever after as their bondslave hopelessly grinding in the mill.
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Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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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.
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Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.
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We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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The San Francisco Stock Exchange was the place that continuously pumped up the savings of the lower classes into the pockets of the millionaires.