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Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes



Scottish author


Quotes

Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

“You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?”
“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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“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.
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“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.”
“The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.”
“The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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“Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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“Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.”
“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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“It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.”
“It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.”
“If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.
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“A friend is a gift you give yourself.”

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