"A man finds he has been wrong at……" — Robert Louis Stevenson
"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 right."
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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364 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson has 364 quotes on this site.
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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…
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I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting…
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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…
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In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we…
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It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the…
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Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon…
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To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of…
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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for…
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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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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
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The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.
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The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.
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It is, however, a most astonishing but incontestable fact, that the history of the evolution of man as yet constitutes…
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Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and…
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I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is…
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As my body lay dead on that stretcher (he later recovered from being struck by lightning attracted by his cell…
— Dannion Brinkley
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Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style,…
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