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There are 65 quotes for the author Robert Louis Stevenson

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He who knoweth the precepts by heart, but faileth to practice them, is like unto one who lighteth a lamp and then shutteth his eyes.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means.

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

Wine is bottled poetry.

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.

If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

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.

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

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