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To be honest, to be kind-to ea...

To be honest, to be kind-to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation-above all, on the same grim condition to keep friends with himself-here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

The cruelest lies are often to...

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator. And how many loves have perished because, from pride, or spite, or diffidence, or that unmanly shame which withholds a man from daring to betray emotion, a lover, at the critical point of the relation, has but hung his head and held his tongue?

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

I who all the Winter through,<...

I who all the Winter through,
Cherished other loves than you
And kept hands with hoary policy in marriage-bed and pew;
Now I know the false and true,
For the earnest sun looks through,
And my old love comes to meet me in the dawning and the dew.

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

And my heart springs up anew,<...

And my heart springs up anew,
Bright and confident and true,
And the old love comes to meet me, in the dawning and the dew.

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

Like a bird singing in the rai...

Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

For my part, I travel not to g...

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

After all, the commonplaces ar...

After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

The world has no room for cowa...

The world has no room for cowards. We must all be
ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die. And yours is
not the less noble because no drum beats before you
when you go out to your daily battlefields, and no
crowds shout your coming when you return from
your daily victory and defeat.

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

Do not forget that even as 't...

Do not forget that even as 'to work is to worship' so to be cheery is to worship also, and to be happy is the first step to being pious.

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

When loud by landside streamle...

When loud by landside streamlets gush,
And clear in the greenwood quires the thrush,
With sun on the meadows
And songs in the shadows
Comes again to me
The gift of the tongues of the lea,
The gift of the tongues of meadows.
So when the earth is alive with gods,
And the lusty ploughman breaks the sod,
And the grass sings in the meadows,
And the flowers smile in the shadows,
Sits my heart at ease,
Hearing the song of the leas,
Singing the songs of the mead

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

There is but one art, to omit....

There is but one art, to omit.

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

Youth is the time to go flashi...

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

Flower god, god of the spring,...

Flower god, god of the spring, beautiful, bountiful,
Cold-dyed shield in the sky, lover of versicles,
Here I wander in April
Cold, grey-headed; and still to my
Heart, Spring comes with a bound, Spring the deliverer,
Spring, song-leader in woods, chorally resonant;
Spring, flower-planter in meadows,
Child-conductor in willowy
Fields deep dotted with bloom, daisies and crocuses:
Here that child from his heart drinks of eternity:
O child, happy are children!

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

When the grass was closely mow...

When the grass was closely mown,
Walking on the lawn alone,
In the turf a hole I found,
And hid a soldier underground.

Spring and daisies came apace;
Grasses hide my hiding place;
Grasses run like a green sea
O'er the lawn up to my knee.

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

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

Is there anything in life so d...

Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement?

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

We are not content to pass awa...

We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a legend.

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

My idea of man's chief end was...

My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so.

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

In the other gardens
And ...

In the other gardens
And all up the vale,
From the autumn bonfies
See the smoke trail!
Pleasant summer over
And all the summer flowers,
The red fire blazes,
the grey smoke towers.
Sing a song of seasons!
Something bright in all,
Flowers in the summer
Fires in the fall!

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

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