Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

• A true writer is someone the gods have called to the task.

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  To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness these are the gifts which money cannot buy.

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

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• There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

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• The world has no room for cowards.

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• He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

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

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  “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.”

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• I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

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• The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

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

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• Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.

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• So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

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• The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

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

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

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• You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.

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• The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

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• The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

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• The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

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Robert Louis Stevenson (164)

Birth:	13th November, 1850
Death:	3rd December, 1894
Nationality:	Scottish
Profession:	Essayist, Novelist, Poet

About

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

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