Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes - Page 7

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• Sit loosely in the saddle.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Leisure, Saddles

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• The San Francisco Stock Exchange was the place that continuously pumped up the savings of the lower classes into the pockets of the millionaires.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Class, San Francisco, Pockets

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• I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Two, Jekyll

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2010). “Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde”, p.95, Bibliolis Books

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• We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Goes On, Thunderstorm, Strive

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• Youth is wholly experimental.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Youth

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

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• Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  School, College, Vitality

  1881 Virginibus Puerisque,'An Apology for Idlers'.

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• An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Inspirational, Dream, Joy

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.638, Jazzybee Verlag

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• For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling world reach you no more.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Desire, Cabins, World

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.6008, Delphi Classics

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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

  Prayer, Believe, Angel

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.2610, Delphi Classics

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• Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted mostly.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Night, Long, Cheese

  'Treasure Island' (1883) ch. 15

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• I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Spiritual, Memories, Animal

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2011). “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: A Kaplan SAT Score-Raising Classic”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Quality, Vices, Life Is

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.95, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Saints are sinners who kept on going.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Perseverance, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

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• Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Proud, Be Proud

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Travels With a Donkey”, p.4, Robert Louis Stevenson

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• The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they disengage us from ourselves, they constrain us to the acquaintance of others; and they show us the web of experience, but with a singular change-that monstrous, consuming ego of ours being, nonce, struck out.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life Lesson, Book, Writing

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Essays in the Art of Writing(illustrated)”, p.25, Full Moon Publications

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• The world has no room for cowards.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Courage, Coward, World

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson (1905). “Works”

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• If you would grow great and stately,
  You must try to walk sedately.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Children, Trying, Walks

  1885 A Child's Garden of Verses, no.27,'Good and Bad Children', stanza1.

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• I know what happiness is, for I have done good work.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Happiness, Done, Good Work

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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.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Somewhere Else, Preparation, Different

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.5863, Delphi Classics

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• The fact is, we are much more afraid of life than our ancestors, and cannot find it inourhearts either tomarry or not tomarry.Marriage isterrifying, but so is a cold and forlorn old age.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Age, Facts, Cold

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• Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Marriage, Suicide, Married

  'Virginibus Puerisque' (1881) 'Virginibus Puerisque, pt. 2'

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• A knowledge that another has felt as we have felt, and seen things not much otherwise than we have seen them, will continue to the end to be one of life's choicest blessings.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Friendship, Blessing, Ends

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• You seem to me to be a pretty lucky young man; keep your eyes open to your mercies. That part of piety is eternal; and the man who forgets to be grateful has fallen asleep in life.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life, Thankful, Gratitude

  "The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson".

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• It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Love, Respect, Fall

  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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• Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Wisdom, People, Ambitious

  1881 Virginibus Puerisque,'Crabbed Age and Youth'.

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