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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The essence of love is kindness.
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If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.
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Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.
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The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and touched a virginity of sense.
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To be wealthy, a rich nature is the first requisite and money but the second. To be of a quick and healthy blood, to share in all honorable curiosities, 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 of fortune which money cannot buy, and without which money can buy nothing.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.