Trusty, dusky, vivid, true, With eyes of gold and bramble-dew, Steel-true and blade-straight, The great artificer made my mate.


Robert Stevenson

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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a milli...
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catch words.
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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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Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of differ...
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The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. -Robert Louis Stevenson.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost ind...
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We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an...
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of...
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end,...
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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TO TRAVEL HOPEFULLY IS A BETTER THING THAN TO ARRIVE

(RLS, “El Dorado” (1878), in Vir...
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His stories were what frightened people worst of all. Dreadful stories they were--about hanging, and...
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I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something.
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So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indis...
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Love- what is love?
A great and aching heart;
Wrung hands;
and silence;
and a lo...
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The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duti...
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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 bo...
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You cannot run away from a weakness, you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, w...
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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
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Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life
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It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunit...
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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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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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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...
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You must suffer me to go my own dark way.
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No baggage - there was the secret of existence.
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If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.
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Before us, over the tree tops, we beheld a great field of open sea to the East. Sheer above us rose ...
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To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years,...
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is...
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Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop ...
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Lord, behold our family here assembled. We thank Thee for this place in which we dwell; for the love...
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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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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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere an...
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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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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To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with ...
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If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong
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It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a milli...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to pr...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
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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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says n...
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: ...
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I hate cynicism a great deal worse than I do the devil; unless perhaps the two were the same thing
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Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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