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They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
It is one of the worst things of sentiment, that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that which is spoken. View quote
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We should wipe two words from our vocabulary: gratitude and charity. In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it is not valued; it is received from the hand of friendship, or it is resented. View quote
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Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth. View quote
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You must suffer me to go my own dark way. View quote
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I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin. View quote
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A generous prayer is never presented in vain the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation. View quote
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We got together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts imaginable--not pretty to look at, but fellows, by their faces, of the most indomitable spirit. View quote
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Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head. View quote
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I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on man's shoulders; and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure. View quote
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until, nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means. View quote
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Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement? View quote
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With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two. View quote
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The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance. View quote
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There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul. View quote
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It was for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills. Sir, if that was my master, why had he a mask upon his face? View quote
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I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way. View quote
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After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths. View quote
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You're either my ship's cook-and then you were treated handsome-or Cap'n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang! View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
If it comes to a swinging, swing all, say I. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Under the strain of this continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, ay, even beyond what I had thought possible to man, I became, in my own person, a creature eaten up and emptied by fever, languidly weak both in body and mind, and solely occupied by one thought: the horror of my other self. View quote
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Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
Some day, Utterson, after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you. ~Landon. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
To cast in it with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations. View quote
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