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Children Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

18 Children quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

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Robert Louis Stevenson’s reflections on youngsters carry his signature adventure spirit. He mirrors the landscape of childhood as a place of discovery, offering a lively mix of nostalgia and encouragement that resonates with both the young and the young‑at‑heart.

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“And yet Alan had behaved like a child, and (what is worse) a treacherous child.”

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“Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child.”

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Children are certainly too good to be true.

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If you would grow great and stately, You must try to walk sedately.

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“That child of hell wasn't human. Nothing lived in him but fear and hatred.”

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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor…

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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…

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The ideal story is that of two people who go into love step for step, with a fluttered consciousness, like a pair…

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Every child can remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy…

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The child that is not clean and neat, With lots of toys and things to eat, He is a naughty child, I'm…

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Away down the river, A hundred miles or more, Other little children Shall bring my boats ashore.

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A child should always say what's true, And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table: At least as…

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Cruel children, crying babies, All grow up as geese and gabies, Hated, as their age increases, By their nephews and their nieces.

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Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the…

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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…

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Flower god, god of the spring, beautiful, bountiful, Cold-dyed shield in the sky, lover of versicles, Here I wander in April Cold,…

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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…

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“Years may go by, and the wheel in the river Wheel as it wheels for us, children, to-day, Wheel and keep roaring…

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You must suffer me to go my own dark way.

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“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we find is an honest friend. He is a fortunate…

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The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

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The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more…

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“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,…

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“Mutiny, it was plain, hung over us like a thunder-cloud.”

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Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak.

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It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to…

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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…

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Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.

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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

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