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Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Robert Louis Stevenson quotes

Scottish Writer November 13, 1850 – December 3, 1894

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Yet I had not been many days shut up with them before I began to be ashamed of my first judgment, when I had drawn away from them at the Ferry pier, as though they had been unclean beasts. No class of man is altogether bad, but each has its own faults and virtues; and these shipmates of mine were no exception to the rule. Rough they were, sure enough; and bad, I suppose; but they had many virtues. They were kind when it occurred to them, simple even beyond the simplicity of a country lad like... Robert Louis Stevenson
To the Hesitating Purchaser:"If sailor tales to sailor tunes, Storm and adventure, heat and cold, If schooners, islands, and maroons And Buccaneers and buried Gold. And all the old romance, retold, Exactly in the ancient way, Can please, as me they pleased of old, The wiser youngsters of to-day:-So be it, and fall on! If not, If studious youth no longer crave, His ancient appetites forgot, Kingston, or Ballantyne the brave, Or Cooper of the wood and wave: So be it, also! And may IAnd all my... Robert Louis Stevenson
But he had an approved tolerance for others; sometimes wondering, almost with envy, at the high pressure of spirits involved in their misdeeds; and in any extremity inclined to help rather than to reprove. 'I incline to Cain's heresy,' he used to say quaintly: 'I let my brother go to the devil in his own way. Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson quote: "Books are good enough in their own way, but they are mighty..."
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are mighty bloodless substitute for living. Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson quote: "Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue..."
Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits. Robert Louis Stevenson
Alan," cried I, "what makes ye so good to me? What makes ye care for such a thankless fellow?" Deed, and I don't, know" said Alan. "For just precisely what I thought I liked about ye, was that ye never quarrelled:—and now I like ye better! Robert Louis Stevenson
There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people. Robert Louis Stevenson
in the high, old tottering voice that seemed to have been tuned and broken at the capstan bars. Then he rapped on the door with a bit of stick like a handspike that he carried, and when my father appeared, called roughly for a glass of rum. This, when it was brought to him, he drank slowly, like a connoisseur, lingering on the taste and still looking about him at the cliffs and up at our signboard. Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson quote: "I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a..."
I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered. Robert Louis Stevenson
The man's tongue is fit to frighten the French. Another fever."Ah, there," said Morgan, "that comed of sp'iling Bibles."That comed--as you call it--of being arrant asses. Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson quote: "It is a good thing to make a bridge of gold to a flying enemy"
It is a good thing to make a bridge of gold to a flying enemy Robert Louis Stevenson
There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change. Robert Louis Stevenson
And I have come so far; and the sights and thoughts of my youth pursue me; and I see like a vision the youth of my father, and of his father, and the whole stream of lives flowing down there, far in the north, with the sound of laughter and tears, to cast me out in the end, as by a sudden freshet, on those ultimate islands. And I admire and bow my head before the romance of destiny. Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson quote: "In winter I get up at night, and dress by yellow candlelight,..."
In winter I get up at night, and dress by yellow candlelight, In summer, quite the other day, I have to go to bed by day Robert Louis Stevenson
Under the wide and starry sky. Dig the grave and let me lie: Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he long'd to be; Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill. Robert Louis Stevenson

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