Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Robert Louis Stevenson (109)

Birth:	13th November, 1850
Death:	3rd December, 1894
Nationality:	Scottish
Profession:	Essayist, Novelist, Poet

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Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

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• To forget oneself is to be happy.

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• There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.

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• I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.

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• Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?

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• When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

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• Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.

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• We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

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• I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.

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• When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.

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• The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

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• The obscurest epoch is today.

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• There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us.

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• All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

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• Wine is bottled poetry.

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• Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.

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• You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

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• You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.

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• The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

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• The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.

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• The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.

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