It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that he is… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I love this quote uttered by the character Widget in The Night Circus. He credits it to Herr Thiessen but knows it… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Happiness and goodness, according to canting moralists, stand in the relation of effect and cause. There was never anything less proved or… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
To be wealthy, a rich nature is the first requisite and money but the second. To be of a quick and healthy… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good:… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
[T]he kingdom of heaven is of the childlike, of those who are easy to please, who love and who give pleasure. Mighty… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we find is an honest friend. He is a fortunate… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“For thirty years," he said, "I've sailed the seas and seen good and bad, better and worse, fair weather and foul, provisions running out,… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
You have no idea, unless you have tried it, how endlessly long is a summer's day, that you measure out only by hunger, and… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
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