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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Age: 44 †
Born: 1850
Born: November 13
Died: 1894
Died: December 3
Essayist
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Edinburgh
Scotland
Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Luis Stivensoni
Shih-ti-wen-sheng
Stivenson
Robert Loui Sitivensin
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Lui Stivenson
RL Stivenson
RL Stevenson
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More quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
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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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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A birdie with a yellow bill Hoped upon the window sill, Cocked his shining eye and said: 'Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-'ead?
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Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.
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I wish these flies would piss off.
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Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.
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The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Jekyll had more than a father's interest Hyde had more than a son's indifference.
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How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do!
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A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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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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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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Go, little book, and wish to all Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall, A bin of wine, a spice of wit, A house with lawns enclosing it, A living river by the door, A nightingale in the sycamore!
Robert Louis Stevenson
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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Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.
Robert Louis Stevenson
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
Robert Louis Stevenson
In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.
Robert Louis Stevenson
I've a grand memory for forgetting.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
Robert Louis Stevenson
