A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“The world is so full of a number of things, I ’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.” — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
A child should always say what's true, And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table: At least as… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule), no woman should marry a man who does not smoke. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Lastly no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. It is not for nothing that this "ignoble… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It is the history of our kindnesses that alone make this world tolerable. If it were not for that, for the effect… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years,… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Bed in Summer In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way, I… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“The Flowers All the names I know from nurse: Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse, Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock, And the Lady Hollyhock. Fairy… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
We live thetime that a match flickers; we pop the corkof a ginger-beer bottle, and the earthquake swallows us on the instant.… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
We should wipe two words from our vocabulary: gratitude and charity. In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it… — 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
So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
This is still the strangest thing in all man's travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of… — 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
Now, to be properly enjoyed, a walking tour should be gone upon alone… Freedom is of the essence, because you should be… — 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
This was the shocking thing; that the slime of the pit seemed to utter cries and voices; that the amorphous dust gesticulated… — 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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