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Men Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
- I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.
- 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…
- 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…
- I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens.
- I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think…
- A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely…
- Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and…
- The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet…
- These are my politics: to change what we can; to better what we can; but still to bear in mind that man is but a…
- My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so.
- A Morning Prayer The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man; help us…
- The seeming significance of nature's appearances, their unchanging strangeness to the senses, and the thrilling response which they awaken in the mind of man .…
- To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude.
- Money alone is only a mean; it presupposes a man to use it. The rich man can go where he pleases, but perhaps please himself…
- Dogs live with man as courtiers 'round a monarch, steeped in the flattery of his notice ... to push their favor in this world of…
- O God! I screamed, and "O God! Again and again; for there before my eyes - pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before…
- There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . . . it quiets…
- Loving God, help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds, and…
- Under the strain of this continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, ay, even beyond what I had thought…
- The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner.
- Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.
- If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he often laments his…
- The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man…
- All I dreamed about Dr. Jekyll was that one man was being pressed into a cabinet, when he swallowed a drug and changed into another…
- Strange indeed is the attraction of the forest for the minds of men.
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