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Own Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
- We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain 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…
- Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.
- His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time,…
- Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
- But we are so fond of life that we have no leisure to entertain the terror of death. It is a honeymoon with us all…
- Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
- Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
- Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
- Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not…
- When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny…
- I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.
- You must suffer me to go my own dark way.
- In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and…
- It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that he is charmed by the…
- Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
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