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There is but one art, to omit...

There is but one art, to omit! Oh, if I knew how to omit I would ask no other knowledge. A man who knows how to omit would make an Iliad of a daily paper.

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

It is not enough to be ready ...

It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

I incline to Cain's heresy," ...

I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

In winter I get up at night
...

In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.

I have to go to bed and see
The birds still hopping on the tree,
Or hear the grown-up people's feet
Still going past me in the street.

And does it not seem hard to you,
When all the sky is clear and blue,
And I should like so much to play,
To have to go to bed by day?

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

When I suffer in mind, storie...

When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor of the mind.

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

A generous prayer is never pr...

A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation.

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

I have been made to learn tha...

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.

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

To believe in immortality is ...

To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

Sightseeing is the art of dis...

Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

A bottle of good wine, like a...

A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

His friends were those of his...

His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object.

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

The outer world, from which w...

The outer world, from which we cower into our houses, seemed after all a gentle habitable place; and night after night a man's bed, it seemed, was laid and waiting for him in the fields, where God keeps an open house.

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

Truth in spirit, not truth to...

Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity.

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

This profusion of eccentricit...

This profusion of eccentricities, this dream in masonry and living rock is not a drop scene in a theatre, but a city in the world of reality.

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

Little do ye know your own bl...

Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

Let first the onion flourish ...

Let first the onion flourish there,
Rose among roots, the maiden-fair,
Wine-scented and poetic soul
Of the capacious salad bowl.

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

The less I understood of this...

The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

An aspiration is a joy foreve...

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

-I am not sure whether he's s...

-I am not sure whether he's sane. -If there's any doubt about the matter, he is.

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

He is not easy to describe. T...

He is not easy to describe. There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable. I never saw a man I so disliked, and yet I scarce know why. He must be deformed somewhere; he gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I couldn’t specify the point. He’s an extraordinary-looking man, and yet I really can name nothing out of the way. No sir; I can make no hand of it; I can’t describe him. And it’s not want of memory; for I declare I can see him this moment.

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

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