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Upon 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…
- 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…
- A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student.
- Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.
- There is nothing but God's grace. We walk upon it; we breathe it; we live and die by it; it makes the nails and axles…
- 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 .…
- The world was made before English language, and seemingly upon a different design.
- There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
- It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of…
- Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
- A birdie with a yellow bill Hoped upon the window sill, Cocked his shining eye and said: 'Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-'ead?
- It was for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills. Sir, if that was my master, why…
- O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.
- I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on man’s shoulders; and when the attempt is…
- To be honest, to be kind-to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his…
- If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong
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