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Robert Louis Stevenson

1850-1894 ,  Scottish writer
Robert Louis StevensonScottish novelist, poet and travel writer, most noted for writing “Treasure Island”, “Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” and “A Child's Garden of Verses”.

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Good and evil are so close as to be chained together in the soul.

Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy.

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.

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

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.

Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.

Youth is wholly experimental.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

A good conscience is eight parts of courage.

There is a strong feeling in favour of cowardly and prudential proverbs.

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

The time would fail me if I were to recite all the big names in history whose exploits are perfectly irrational and even shocking to the business mind.

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.

The devil, depend upon it, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

The wine is bottled poetry.

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

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

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

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.

Jekyll had more than a father’s interest; Hyde had more than a son’s indifference.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

We must go on, because we can’t turn back.

To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.

Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.

Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.

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

Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.

The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.

It takes hard writing to make easy reading.

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

The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die.

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

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

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

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.

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

No man is useless while he has a friend.

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

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

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.

Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.

Curiosity and timidity fought a long battle in his heart.


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