Robert Louis Stevenson Short Quotes

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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

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Pieces of eight, pieces of eight, pieces of eight!

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Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.

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The price we have to pay for money is paid in liberty.

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The green plain ran till it touched the skirts of heaven.
Of Nebraska

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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

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Is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment?

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The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

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"What is the Black Spot, Captain?" "That's a summons, mate."

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Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.

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Bright is the ring of words
When the right man rings them.

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What hangs people…is the unfortunate circumstance of guilt.

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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

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Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.

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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

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God, if this were enough,
That I see things bare to the buff.

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Be it granted me to behold you again in dying,
Hills of home!

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If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.

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Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese—toasted, mostly.

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There's just ae thing I cannae bear,
An' that's my conscience.

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Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.

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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?

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Children, you are very little,
And your bones are very brittle.

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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.

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O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song!

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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

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I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

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Strange indeed is the attraction of the forest for the minds of men.

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If you would grow great and stately,
You must try to walk sedately.

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