Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson Quotes
104 Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson quotes:
"The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us."
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"Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week."
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"You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us"
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"By the time a man gets into the seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle."
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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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"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."
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"Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm."
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"His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object."
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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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"The cruellest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator."
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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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"Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life"
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"When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory."
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"Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police"
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"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor."
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"There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last."
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"Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it."
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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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"Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind."
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"It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect. what may be called a phenomenon, no matter in what sphere."
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