"Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory……" — Robert Louis Stevenson
"Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head."
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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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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or…
— Aristotle
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Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not…
— Francis of Assisi
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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
— Marcus Aurelius
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The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is…
— Alfred Austin
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Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the…
— Sai Baba
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The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment…
— Johann Sebastian Bach
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I'm not motivated by vanity, glory or the quest for power.
— Michele Bachmann
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Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years.
— Joseph Barbera
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Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
— Philip James Bailey
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If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the…
— James A. Baldwin
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The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
— James A. Baldwin
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The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of…
— John Adams
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