"In every part and corner of our life,……" — Robert Louis Stevenson
"In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy."
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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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There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.
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My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days,…
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I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their…
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I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in.
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For me, riding a two-wheeler bike was very risky. Counting the pedal strokes before turning a corner and learning to…
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Facts, like people, want to be free - and when they're free, liberty is usually around the corner.
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Amazement awaits us at every corner.
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A city is where you can sign a petition, boo the chief justice, fish off a pier, gaze at a…
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