Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

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• A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.
• An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart…
• I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting as weeding. I went crazy…
• I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.
• Saints are sinners who kept on going.
• All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.
• In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book,…
• It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to reawaken…
• Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often…
• To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret…
• If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you…
• All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.
• To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.
• I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens.
• Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy.
• Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy.
• Sing a song of seasons; something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall.
• We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts…
• It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life…
• Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.

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