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Robert Louis Stevenson Inspirational Quotes (264)

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My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring
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Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.
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The saddest object in civilization, and to my mind the greatest confession of its failure, is the man who can work, who wants work, and who is not allowed to work.
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To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.
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It takes hard writing to make easy reading.
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If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.
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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.
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Sit loosely in the saddle.
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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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There comes an end to all things the most capacious measure is filled at last and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.
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No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature.
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It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
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Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.
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If he be Mr. Hyde he had thought, I shall be Mr. Seek.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.
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Everything is true only the opposite is true too you must believe both equally or be damned.
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Little do ye know your own blessedness for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
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Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.
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The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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Here it is about gentlemen of fortune. They lives rough, and they risk swinging, but they eat and drink like fighting-cocks, and when a cruise is done, why, it's hundreds of pounds instead of hundreds of farthings in their pockets.
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The child that is not clean and neat, With lots of toys and things to eat, He is a naughty child, I'm sure-- Or else his dear Papa is poor.
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I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.
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All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.
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Fear is the strong passion it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.
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