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Robert Louis Stevenson Inspirational Quotes (263)

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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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Quiet minds cannot 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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Under the strain of this continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, ay, even beyond what I had thought possible to man, I became, in my own person, a creature eaten up and emptied by fever, languidly weak both in body and mind, and solely occupied by one thought: the horror of my other self.
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But of works of art little can be said.
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I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.
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To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor.
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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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And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought.
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The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
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The outer world, from which we cower into our houses, seemed after all a gentle habitable place and night after night a man's bed, it seemed, was laid and waiting for him in the fields, where God keeps an open house.
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I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on man’s shoulders and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure.
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Some day...after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you.
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To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life.
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In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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A proposition of geometry does not compete with life and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a work of art. Both are reasonable, both untrue to the crude fact both inhere in nature, neither represents it.
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If you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife
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We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.
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Had be been Shakespeare, he would then have written Troilus and Cressidato brand the offending sex but being only a little dog, he began to bite them.
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A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.
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Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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