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Thing Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
- 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 believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.
- The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner.
- 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.
- 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…
- Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as simple and specious as a statue to the first glance,…
- The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
- To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
- It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
- It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
- We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
- This was the shocking thing; that the slime of the pit seemed to utter cries and voices; that the amorphous dust gesticulated and sinned; that…
- To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.
- and he began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone…
- It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.
- A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and…
- I hate cynicism a great deal worse than I do the devil; unless perhaps the two were the same thing
- The existence of a man is so small a thing to take, so mighty a thing to employ
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