"To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise……" — Robert Louis Stevenson
"To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life."
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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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There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he…
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All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web…
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My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted…
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Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is…
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I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend…
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Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive…
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Former vice president Al Gore has devoted his post-administration years to a mission to tell the world about global warming.…
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For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose…
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I am deeply devoted to the 27,000 songs I can take anywhere on my iPod Classic as well as the…
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You know, it's a big version of an episode, which I think is necessary at this point because we're drawing…
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When a couple of young people strongly devoted to each other commence to eat onions, it is safe to pronounce…
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