"If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed."
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Robert Louis Stevenson quotes (page 14 of 23)
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"Love- what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair"
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"Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert."
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"The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner."
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"The San Francisco Stock Exchange was the place that continuously pumped up the savings of the lower classes into the pockets of the millionaires."
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"I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on man’s shoulders; and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure."
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"Let first the onion flourish there, Rose among roots, the maiden-fair, Wine-scented and poetic soul Of the capacious salad bowl."
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"There is but one art, to omit."
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"Here it is about gentlemen of fortune. They lives rough, and they risk swinging, but they eat and drink like fighting-cocks, and when a cruise is done, why, it's hundreds of pounds instead of hundreds of farthings in their pockets."
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"Sightseeing is the art of disappointment."
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"You have no idea, unless you have tried it, how endlessly long is a summer's day, that you measure out only by hunger, and bring to an end only when you are drowsy."
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"It was for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills. Sir, if that was my master, why had he a mask upon his face?"
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"Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest"
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"It was Silver's voice, and before I had heard a dozen words, I would not have shown myself for all the world. I lay there, trembling and listening, in the extreme of fear and curiostiy, for, in those dozen words, I understood that the lives of all the honest men aboard depended on me alone."
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"This was the shocking thing; that the slime of the pit seemed to utter cries and voices; that the amorphous dust gesticulated and sinned; that what was dead, and had no shape, should usurp the offices of life. And this again, that that insurgent horror was knit to him closer than a wife, closer than an eye; lay caged in his flesh, where he heard it mutter and felt it struggle to be born; and at every hour of weakness, and in the confidence of slumber, prevailed against him, and deposed him out of life."
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"It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive."
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"A birdie with a yellow bill Hoped upon the window sill, Cocked his shining eye and said: 'Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-'ead?"
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"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."
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"We fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of fear and pain."
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"Some day...after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you."
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