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Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Robert Louis Stevenson quotes about good

Scottish Writer November 13, 1850 – December 3, 1894

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Robert Louis Stevenson quote: "Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and..."
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate. Robert Louis Stevenson
In his own life, then, a man is not to expect happiness, only to profit by it gladly when it shall arise; he is on duty here; he knows not how or why, and does not need to know; he knows not for what hire, and must not ask. Somehow or other, though he does not know what goodness is, he must try to be good; somehow or other, though he cannot tell what will do it, he must try to give happiness to others. Robert Louis Stevenson
I had learned to dwell with pleasure as a beloved daydream on the thought of the separation of these elements. If each I told myself could be housed in separate identities life would be relieved of all that was unbearable the unjust might go his way delivered from the aspirations and remorse of his more upright twin and the just could walk steadfastly and securely on his upward path doing the good things in which he found his pleasure and no longer exposed to disgrace and penitence by the... Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson quote: "Books are good enough in their own way but they are a mighty..."
Books are good enough in their own way but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life. Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson quote: "Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor..."
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life. Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson quote: "Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to..."
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson quote: "Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a..."
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson quote: "There is only one difference between a long life and a good..."
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. Robert Louis Stevenson
Happiness and goodness, according to canting moralists, stand in the relation of effect and cause. There was never anything less proved or less probable: our happiness is never in our own hands; we inherit our constitution; we stand buffet among friends and enemies; we may be so built as to feel a sneer or an aspersion with unusual keenness and so circumstanced as to be unusually exposed to them; we may have nerves very sensitive to pain, and be afflicted with a disease very painful. Virtue... Robert Louis Stevenson
There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may. Robert Louis Stevenson
In each of us, two natures are at war? the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose? what we want most to be we are. Robert Louis Stevenson
The Flowers. All the names I know from nurse: Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse, Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock, And the Lady Hollyhock. Fairy places, fairy things, Fairy woods where the wild bee wings, Tiny trees for tiny dames--These must all be fairy names! Tiny woods below whose boughs. Shady fairies weave a house; Tiny tree-tops, rose or thyme, Where the braver fairies climb! Fair are grown-up people's trees, But the fairest woods are these; Where, if I were not so tall, I should... Robert Louis Stevenson
All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone, in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil. Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson quote: "There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good..."
There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terward" - Long John Silver Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson quote: "A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though..."
A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so. Robert Louis Stevenson

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