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Robert Louis Stevenson [1850-1894] Scottish

Rank: 11
Poet (with poems), Novelist

Atheism, Children, Gothic, Slavery, Victorian

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

Life, Marriage, Travel, Good, Courage, Friendship, Great, Health, Inspirational, Nature, Age, Beauty, Best, Communication, Education, Food, Funny, Gardening, Happiness, Humor, Legal, Love, Men, Money, Motivational, Poetry, Politics, Relationship, Respect, Strength, Success, Thankful, Time, Wisdom

Quote	Tags	Rank
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.	Inspirational	1
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.	Best, Travel	102
A friend is a gift you give yourself.	Friendship	103
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.	Life, Thankful	104
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.	Beauty, Men, Nature	105
The world has no room for cowards.		106
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.	Good, Life	107
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.		108
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.		109
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.	Courage, Strength	110
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.	Wisdom	111
You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?	Time	112
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.	Love	113
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.	Great, Travel	114
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.	Great	115
The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.		116
All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.	Good	117
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.		118
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.	Success	119
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.	Motivational	120
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.		121
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.	Inspirational	122
I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.		123
Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.	Age, Education, Health, Money	124
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.	Gardening	125
Nothing like a little judicious levity.	Humor	126
Wine is bottled poetry.	Food, Poetry	201
Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?		202
The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.		203
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.	Relationship	204
The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.		205
It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.		206
Every man has a sane spot somewhere.	Funny	207
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.		208
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.		209
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.	Nature	210
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.		211
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.	Travel	212
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.	Health	213
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.	Legal	214
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.	Travel	215
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.	Life	216
If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.		217
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.		218
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.		219
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.	Courage	220
You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.	Marriage	221
It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.		222
It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.	Respect	223
Nothing made by brute force lasts.		224
He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.		225
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.	Communication	226
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.	Life	301
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.		302
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.		303
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.		304
Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.	Friendship, Marriage	305
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.		306
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.	Politics	307
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.		308
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.		309
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.		310
When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.		311
The obscurest epoch is today.		312
To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.		313
To forget oneself is to be happy.	Happiness	314
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.		315
Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.	Marriage	316
Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.		317
Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.		318
We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.		319
Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.		320
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.	Good	321
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.		322
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.		323
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.		324
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.		325
The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.		326
Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.		401
Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.		402
I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.		403
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.		404
You can kill the body but not the spirit.		405
So long as we love, we serve; 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.		406
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.		407
When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.		408
When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.		409
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.	Marriage	410
I've a grand memory for forgetting.		411
Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.		412
There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.		413
Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.		414
Everyone lives by selling something.		415
To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.		416
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.		417
We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.		418
No man is useless while he has a friend.		419
The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.		420
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.		421
You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.		422
Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.		423
You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.		424

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