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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• I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

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• You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

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  A friend is a gift you give yourself.

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• It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

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• The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

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• There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

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• We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

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• Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

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  Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

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  Life is not a matter of having good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

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  An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

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• Is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment?

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  Topics in Ability, Achievement

• Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

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• Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

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• Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

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• Everyone lives by selling something.

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• Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

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• I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

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• If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.

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• It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

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