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Robert Louis Stevenson

Birthday: November 13, 1850
Deathday: December 03, 1894
Category: Scottish Writer
Type: Writer
National: Scottish

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A friend is a gift you give yourself....

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it...

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

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until...

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding....

Books are good enough in their own way, but they...

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer....

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but...

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the...

Even if the doctor does not give you a year,...

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left...

Every man has a sane spot somewhere....

Every one lives by selling something....

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of...

Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to...

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to...

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but...

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere....

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion....

I am in the habit of looking not so much...

I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling...

I have a little shadow that goes in and out...

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite...

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

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I...

I've a grand memory for forgetting....

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart...

If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it...

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

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes...

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for...

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than...

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love...

It is not so much for its beauty that the...

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

It is the mark of a good action that it...

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten...

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but...

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who...

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

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but...

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone,...

Marriage is like life - it is a field of...

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes....

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police....

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use...

No man is useless while he has a friend....

Nothing like a little judicious levity....

Nothing made by brute force lasts....

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we...

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is...

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

Once you are married, there is nothing left for you,...

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to...

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is...

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

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on...

So long as we are loved by others I should...

So long as we love, we serve; so long as...

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of...

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It...

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed...

The body is a house of many windows: there we...

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know...

The cruelest lies are often told in silence....

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing....

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to...

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed,...

The mark of a good action is that it appears...

The obscurest epoch is today....

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

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest...

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once...

The world has no room for cowards....

The world is full of a number of things, I'm...

The world is so full of a number of things,...

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

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and...

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they...

There is no duty we so much underrate as the...

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same...

There is only one difference between a long life and...

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity....

To be what we are, and to become what we...

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to...

To become what we are capable of becoming is the...

To forget oneself is to be happy....

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen...

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive....

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

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all...

We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world,...

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily,...

We must accept life for what it actually is -...

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is...

When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you...

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be...

When it comes to my own turn to lay my...

Wine is bottled poetry....

You can forgive people who do not follow you through...

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

You can kill the body but not the spirit....

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to;...

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time...

You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but...

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell...