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
inspirational life friendship
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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Live life to the fullest.
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The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.
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The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they disengage us from ourselves, they constrain us to the acquaintance of others; and they show us the web of experience, but with a singular change-that monstrous, consuming ego of ours being, nonce, struck out.
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Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.
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A great part of life consists of contemplating what we cannot cure.
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To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain common work as it comes certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.
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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.
life men tasks
To be honest, to be kind-to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation-above all, on the same grim condition to keep friends with himself-here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.
life lying pride
The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator. And how many loves have perished because, from pride, or spite, or diffidence, or that unmanly shame which withholds a man from daring to betray emotion, a lover, at the critical point of the relation, has but hung his head and held his tongue?