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Youth now flees on feathered foot. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
There is but one art, to omit. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
A good conscience is eight parts of courage. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
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. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
I've a grand memory for forgetting, David'. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
If you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I ask, the heaven above And the road below me. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
A child should always say what's true And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table; At least as far as he is able. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
There's just ae thing I cannae bear, An' that's my conscience. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
Do you know what the Governor of South Carolina said to the Governor of North Carolina? It's a long time between drinks, observed that powerful thinker. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
What is the Black Spot, Captain?" "That's a summons, mate. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
Of all my verse, like not a single line; But like my title, for it is not mine. That title from a better man I stole: Ah, how much better, had I stol'n the whole! View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
Doctors is all swabs...and that doctor there, why, what do he know about seafaring men? I been in places hot as pitch, and mates dropping round with Yellow Jack, and the blessed land a-heaving like the sea with earthquakes - what do the doctor know of lands like that? (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Though the coming of the day is still the most inspiriting, yet day's departure, also, and the return of night refresh, renew, and quiet us; and in the pastures of the dusk we stand, like cattle, exulting in the absence of the load. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves, and rise from the perusal, our mind filled with the busiest, kaleidoscopic dance of images, incapable of sleep or of continuous thought. The words, if the book be eloquent, should run thenceforward in our ears like the noise of breakers, and the story, if it be a story, repeat itself in a thousand coloured pictures to the eye. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson