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Robert Louis Stevenson has 377 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but…
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I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting as weeding.…
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I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.
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Saints are sinners who kept on going.
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All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.
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In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat…
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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…
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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 make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow…
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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may…
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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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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my…
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A man has always wanted to lay me down but he never wanted to pick me up.
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Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep...
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More a paraphrase than a quote, really, but it comes from a prayer which was stitched into a sampler above my grandmother's…
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Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I…
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep…
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Now I lay me down to cheat on the woman I love so, and if I die between these sheets I pray…
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Come away, come away, Death, And in sad cypress let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath, I am slain by…
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Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. And if I should die before I…
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Marilla felt more embarrassed than ever. She had intended to teach Anne the childish classic, "Now I lay me down to sleep."…
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Lay me down like a stone oh God, and raise me up like a new bread".
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Now its raining its pouring the old man is snoring now I lay me down to sleep I hear the sirens in…
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