Way Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

16 Way quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

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Robert Louis Stevenson’s thoughts on Way echo the spirit of a wandering explorer, each line charting a different trail of imagination. With sixteen entries, his adventurous tone and vivid storytelling make the concept feel like a fresh expedition.

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You must suffer me to go my own dark way.

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The spirit of delight comes in small ways.

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

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In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way I have to go…

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Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you…

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All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.

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I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.

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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had…

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Now, to be properly enjoyed, a walking tour should be gone upon alone… Freedom is of the essence, because you should be…

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Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do…

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The bourgeoisie's weapon is starvation. If as a writer or artist you run counter to their narrow notions they simplyand silently withdraw…

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“Bed in Summer In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way, I…

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He is not easy to describe. There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable. I never saw a…

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Respectability is a very good thing in its way, but it does not rise superior to all considerations. I would not for…

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I had learned to dwell with pleasure as a beloved daydream on the thought of the separation of these elements. If each…

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When we have discovered a continent, or crossed a chain of mountains, it is only to find another ocean or another plain…

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You must suffer me to go my own dark way.

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Nobody speaks of a beautifful view for 5 minutes

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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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Saints are sinners who kept on going.

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Loving God, help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds,…

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The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart; She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with…

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