52 quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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“Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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“There is no duty we so underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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“The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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“Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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“Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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“There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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“Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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“Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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“It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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“There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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“Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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“Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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“It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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“The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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“All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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“There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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“Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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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.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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“I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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“Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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