Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes - Page 15

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• Happiness, eternal or temporal, is not the reward that mankind seeks, Happinesses are but his wayside companions. His soul is in the journey and in the struggle.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Struggle, Journey, Soul

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• It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point, indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Civilization, Modern, Umbrella

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Third Edition”, p.251, Broadview Press

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• All I dreamed about Dr. Jekyll was that one man was being pressed into a cabinet, when he swallowed a drug and changed into another being. I awoke and said at once that I had found the missing link for which I had been looking so long, and before I went again to sleep almost every detail of the story, as it stands, was clear to me. Of course, writing it was another thing.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Writing, Sleep, Men

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1993). “The complete short stories”

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• His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to the dust by the many ill things he had done, and raised up again into sober and fearful gratitude by the many he had come so near to doing, yet avoided.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Gratitude, Past, Men

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2010). “Markheim, Jekyll And The Merry Men”, p.242, Canongate Books

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• A little amateur painting in water colors shows the innocent and the quiet mind.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Color, Water, Mind

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• We were to found a University magazine. A pair of little, active brothers-Livingstone by name, great skippers on the foot, great rubbers of the hands, who kept a book-shop over against the University building-had been debauched to play the part of publishers. We four were to be conjuct editors and, what was the main point of the concern, to print our own works; while, by every rule of arithmetic-that flatterer of credulity-the adventure must succeed and bring great profit. Well, well: it was a bright vision.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Brother, Book, Adventure

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.54, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Believe, Men, Wicked

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Kidnapped: Stevenson's Vol. 23”, p.80, VM eBooks

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• When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Girl, Boys, Men

  'A Child's Garden of Verses' (1885) 'Looking Forward'

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• I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting as weeding. I went crazy over the outdoor work, and at last had to confine myself to the house, or literature must have gone by the board.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Weed, Crazy, Writing

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• When loud by landside streamlets gush,
  And clear in the greenwood quires the thrush,
  With sun on the meadows
  And songs in the shadows
  Comes again to me
  The gift of the tongues of the lea,
  The gift of the tongues of meadows.
  So when the earth is alive with gods,
  And the lusty ploughman breaks the sod,
  And the grass sings in the meadows,
  And the flowers smile in the shadows,
  Sits my heart at ease,
  Hearing the song of the leas,
  Singing the songs of the meadows.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Song, Flower, Heart

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.3765, Delphi Classics

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• With the half of a broken hope for a pillow at night
  That somehow the right is the right
  And the smooth shall bloom from the rough:
  Lord, if that were enough?

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Hope, Night, Broken

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Songs of Travel: And Other Verses”, p.36, The Floating Press

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• It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Health, Waste, Spendthrift

  Virginibus Puerisque Ch. 5

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• If it comes to a swinging, swing all, say I.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Swings, Ifs

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1884). “Treasure Island”, p.15

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• A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Fate, Soul, Unhappy

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Body Snatcher and Other Tales”, p.72, Xist Publishing

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• The spirit, Sir, is one of mockery.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Spirit, Mockery

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 745-46, Suicide Club, In New Arabian Nights, 1922.

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• All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Evil, Jekyll, Humans

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• And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Food, Orange, Cooking

  Robert Louis Stevenson, “System”

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• Now, to be properly enjoyed, a walking tour should be gone upon alone.... Freedom is of the essence, because you should be able to stop and go on and follow this way or that as the freak takes you.... There should be no cackle of voices at your elbow to jar on the meditative silence of the morning.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Morning, Essence, Voice

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.669, Jazzybee Verlag

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• We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a legend.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Gratitude, Funeral, Passing Away

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Across the Plains”, p.92, BookRix

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• The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Eye, Silence, Quiet

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.4823, Delphi Classics

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• A birdie with a yellow bill Hoped upon the window sill, Cocked his shining eye and said: 'Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-'ead?

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Eye, Yellow, Shining

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• If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he often laments his youth a deal more bitterly and with a more genuine intonation.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Age, Youth

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1968). “Selected Poetry and Prose of Robert Louis Stevenson”

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• A child should always say what's true, And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table: At least as far as he is able.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Children, Tables, Speak

  A Child's Garden of Verses "Whole Duty of Children" l. 1 (1885)

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• Am I no a bonny fighter?

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Fighter, Classic

  Kidnapped ch. 10 (1886)

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• There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk; to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Ambition, Gay, Welcome

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.4809, Delphi Classics

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