"To be feared of a thing and yet……" — Robert Louis Stevenson

"To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man."

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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364 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson has 364 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.
An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign…
I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting…
I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.
Saints are sinners who kept on going.
All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of…
In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we…
It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the…
Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon…
To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of…
If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for…
All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.

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More Fear Quotes

This quote is filed under Fear Quotes, one of 11,978 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to… — Aristotle
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the… — Aristotle
Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. — Aristotle
Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence. — Aristotle
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil… — Aristotle
Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. — Richard Bach
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that… — Darren Aronofsky
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. — Isaac Asimov
Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation. — Bashar al-Assad

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