Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Ah sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth and none or almost none for the disenchantments of age.
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For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself.
Robert Louis Stevenson
There is but one art to omit.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive and the true success is to labour.
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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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The Saints are the Sinners who keep on trying.
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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.
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It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
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Is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment?
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive and the true success is to labor.
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You cannot run away from a weakness. You must sometimes fight it out or perish and if that be so why not now and where you stand?
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The cruellest lies are often told in silence.
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you that you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive.
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To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.
Robert Louis Stevenson
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer is to keep your soul alive.
Robert Louis Stevenson
To be what we are and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come that we may be brave in peril constant in tribulation temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death loyal and loving one to anther.
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A generous prayer is never presented in vain the petition may be refused but the petitioner is always I believe rewarded by some gracious visitation.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Give us grace and strength to preserve. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends and soften to us our enemies. Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come that we may be brave in peril constant in tribulation temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death loyal and loving to one another.
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Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Anyone can carry his burden however hard until nightfall. Anyone can do his work however hard for one day. Anyone can live sweetly patiently lovingly purely till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means.
Robert Louis Stevenson
I have resolved that from this day on I will do all the business I can honestly have all the fun I can reasonably do all the good I can willingly and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Saints are sinners who kept on going.
Robert Louis Stevenson
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer is to keep your soul alive.
Robert Louis Stevenson
To be what we are and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come that we may be brave in peril constant in tribulation temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death loyal and loving one to anther.
Robert Louis Stevenson
A generous prayer is never presented in vain the petition may be refused but the petitioner is always I believe rewarded by some gracious visitation.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Give us grace and strength to preserve. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends and soften to us our enemies. Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come that we may be brave in peril constant in tribulation temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death loyal and loving to one another.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.
Robert Louis Stevenson
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Anyone can carry his burden however hard until nightfall. Anyone can do his work however hard for one day. Anyone can live sweetly patiently lovingly purely till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means.
Robert Louis Stevenson
I have resolved that from this day on I will do all the business I can honestly have all the fun I can reasonably do all the good I can willingly and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Saints are sinners who kept on going.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonored and grant us in the end the gift of sleep.
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If your morals make you dreary depend on it they are wrong.
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Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes.
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The essence of love is kindness.
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The cruellest lies are often told in silence.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Extreme busyness whether at school or college kirk or market is a symptom of deficient vitality and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
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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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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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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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The world is so full of a number of things I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie.
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An aspiration is a joy forever a possession as solid as a landed estate a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.
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To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.
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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
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A friend is a present you give to yourself.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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So long as we love we serve so long as we are loved by others I would almost say that we are indispensable and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson
For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself.
Robert Louis Stevenson
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and fall.
Robert Louis Stevenson
A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.
Robert Louis Stevenson
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years and to take rank not as a prophet but as an unteachable brat well birched and none the wiser.
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Courage is the footstool of the Virtues upon which they stand.
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Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.
Robert Louis Stevenson
I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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It is very nice to think The world is full of meat and drink With little children saying grace In every Christian kind of place.
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Wherever we are it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else and whatever we do however well we do it it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.
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