Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson

Scottish writer and poet

Lived from: 1850 - 1894

Category: Writers (Contemporary) | Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 13 november 1850 Died: 3 december 1894

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  • Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.
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  • Everyone lives by selling something.
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  • For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!
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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; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.
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  • Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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  • He travels best that knows when to return. Middleton 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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  • He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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  • I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.
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  • I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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  • 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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  • I've a grand memory for forgetting.
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  • If a man loves the labor of his trade apart from any question of success or fame, the Gods have called him.
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  • If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.
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  • In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.
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  • In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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  • It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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  • It is better to be a fool than to be dead.
    Virginibus Puerisque
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  • It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
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  • It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!
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  • It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in the retrospect.
    Ethical Studies
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