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Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes: 20

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
Nothing like a little judicious levity.
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Lay Morals
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.
Kidnapped
Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
Treasure Island
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
REQUIEMUnder the wide and starry skyDig 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.
Selected Poems
Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door;Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shoreWhere neither piping bird nor peeping dawnDisturbs the eternal sleep,But in the stillness far withdrawnOur dreamless rest for evermore we keep.
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
An Apology for Idlers
An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils".
An Apology for Idlers
To travel hopefully is better than to have arrived.