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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  • We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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  • We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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  • What hangs people is the unfortunate circumstance of guilt.
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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.
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  • When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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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.
    Familiar Studies of Men and Books: Stevenson's (2016) 65
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  • Wine is bottled poetry.
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  • You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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  • You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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  • You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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  • You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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  • You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
    Personal Quotes/ Biography (2016)
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  • Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement?
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