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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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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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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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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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Faster than fairies, faster than witches,
Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;
And charging along like troops in a battle,
All through the meadows the horses and cattle

Robert Louis Stevenson

Travel, Horse, Bridges

Robert Louis Stevenson (2011). “A Child's Garden of Verses (兒童詩園)”, p.330, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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Whenever the moon and stars are set,
Whenever the wind is high,
All night long in the dark and wet,
A man goes riding by.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Stars, Dark, Moon

'A Child's Garden of Verses' (1885) 'Windy Nights'

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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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When the grass was closely mown,
Walking on the lawn alone,
In the turf a hole I found,
And hid a soldier underground.

Spring and daisies came apace;
Grasses hide my hiding place;
Grasses run like a green sea
O'er the lawn up to my knee.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Running, Spring, Sea

Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.3446, Delphi Classics

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How do you like to go up in a swing,
Up in the air so blue?
Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing
Ever a child can do!

Robert Louis Stevenson

Children, Thinking, Air

A Child's Garden of Verses "The Swing" l. 1 (1885)

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Cruel children, crying babies,
All grow up as geese and gabies,
Hated, as their age increases,
By their nephews and their nieces.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Baby, Children, Growing Up

Robert Louis Stevenson (2005). “A Child's Garden of Verses (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.18, Sparklesoup LLC

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Away down the river,
A hundred miles or more,
Other little children
Shall bring my boats ashore.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Children, Rivers, Littles

Robert Louis Stevenson (2005). “A Child's Garden of Verses (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.13, Sparklesoup LLC

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He who has learned to love an art or science has wisely laid up riches against the day of riches.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Art, Riches

Robert Louis Stevenson (2004). “Lay Morals”, p.49, 1st World Publishing

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Blows the wind to-day, and the sun and the rain are flying,
Blows the wind on the moors to-day and now,
Where about the graves of the martyrs the whaups are crying,
My heart remembers how!

Robert Louis Stevenson

Rain, Heart, Blow

1894 Songs of Travel (published 1896), no.45,'To S.R. Crockett (in reply to a dedication)', stanza 1.

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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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Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Men, Rings, Right Man

Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.3595, Delphi Classics

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You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Jekyll, Stones, Hills

Robert Louis Stevenson (2010). “Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde”, p.10, Bibliolis Books

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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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A proposition of geometry does not compete with life; and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a work of art. Both are reasonable, both untrue to the crude fact; both inhere in nature, neither represents it.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Art, Doe, Facts

Robert Louis Stevenson (1999). “The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays”, p.195, Cooper Square Press

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Born: November 13, 1850
Died: December 3, 1894
Occupation: Novelist
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