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Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Robert Louis Stevenson quotes about life

Scottish Writer November 13, 1850 – December 3, 1894

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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: "Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is..."
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. 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
With a little more patience and a little less temper, a gentler and wiser method might be found in almost every case; and the knot that we cut by some fine heady quarrel-scene in private life, or, in public affairs, by some denunciatory act against what we are pleased to call our neighbour's vices might yet have been unwoven by the hand of sympathy. Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson quote: "Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of..."
Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses. Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson quote: "For marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of..."
For marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses. Robert Louis Stevenson
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. Robert Louis Stevenson
We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature. Robert Louis Stevenson
It may be argued again that dissatisfaction with our life's endeavor springs in some degree from dulness. We require higher tasks, because we do not recognise the height of those we have. Robert Louis Stevenson
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. Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson quote: "To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have..."
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson quote: "To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of..."
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson quote: "To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in..."
To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life. Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson quote: "The veil of self-indulgence was rent from head to foot. I saw..."
The veil of self-indulgence was rent from head to foot. I saw my life as a whole. Robert Louis Stevenson

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