Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes - Page 4

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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 take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. It is as if a ship captain should sail to India from the Port of London; and having brought a chart of the Thames on deck at his first setting out, should obstinately use no other for the whole voyage.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Years, Views, London

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1999). “The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays”, p.63, Cooper Square Press

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• A great part of this life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Entrepreneur, Cures, Parts Of Life

  "The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale".

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• He is not dead, this friend; not dead, Gone some few, trifling steps ahead, And nearer to the end; So that you, too, once past the bend, Shall meet again, as face to face, this friend You fancy dead.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Death, Past, Gone

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, Sidney Colvin, William Ernest Henley (1918). “The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson”

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• To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Fear, Men, Kind

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Kidnapped”, p.130, Xist Publishing

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• Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Flower, Bed Of Roses, Battle

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• Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Marriage, Long, Disputes

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson”, p.78, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Happiness, Hope, Gratitude

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.637, Jazzybee Verlag

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• When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Happiness, Entrepreneur, Toil

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Familiar Studies of Men and Books: Stevenson's Vol. 16”, p.65, VM eBooks

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• An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Inspirational, Life, Goal

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “The Essential Travel Writings (Annotated Edition)”, p.281, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Take care of each other.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Inspirational, Care, Take Care

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories”, p.119, Race Point Publishing

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• If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Marriage, People, Married

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.4453, Delphi Classics

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• Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Mouths, Treasure Island, Intention

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Treasure Island”, p.39, Aegitas

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• To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Ignorance, Self, Essence

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Across the Plains”, p.179, BookRix

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• The bourgeoisie's weapon is starvation. If as a writer or artist you run counter to their narrow notions they simplyand silently withdraw your means of subsistence. I sometimes wonder how many people of talent are executed in this way every year.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Running, Mean, Artist

  Quoted by Lloyd Osbourne in 'The Death of Stevenson', preface To Tusitala edition of Weir of Hermiston (published 1924).

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• There is but one art, to omit.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Art, Editors

  Letter to R. A. M. Stevenson, Oct. 1883

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• A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Running, Men, Race

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne (1910*). “"Virginibus puerisque" and other papers. Memories and portraits. Familiar studies of men and books”

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• To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Religious, Believe, Firsts

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.41, Jazzybee Verlag

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• We can only know others by ourselves.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life, Happiness, Knows

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1999). “The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays”, p.232, Cooper Square Press

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• Love- what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Heart, Hands, Long

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.3717, Delphi Classics

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• These are my politics: to change what we can; to better what we can; but still to bear in mind that man is but a devil weakly fettered by some generous beliefs and impositions; and for no word however sounding, and no cause however just and pious, to relax the stricture on these bonds.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Generosity, Evil

  'More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter' (1885) 'Epilogue of the Cigar Divan'

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• You must suffer me to go my own dark way.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Dark, Suffering, Way

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2010). “Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde”, p.53, Bibliolis Books

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• Everyone lives by selling something.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life, Business, Marketing

  'Across the Plains' (1892) 'Beggars' pt. 3

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• To forget oneself is to be happy.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Forget, Forgetfulness, Oneself

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Memories and Portraits: Stevenson's Vol. 21”, p.17, VM eBooks

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• To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Inspirational Love, Love Is, Garden

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• Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I lay me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be: Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Death, Lying, Home

  Underwoods "Requiem" (1887). Engraved on Stevenson's tomb in Samoa, with the seventh line reading "home from the sea," which is a frequently quoted variant.

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