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I smoke a pipe abroad, becaus...

I smoke a pipe abroad, because
To all cigars I much prefer it,
And as I scorn you social laws,
My choice has nothing to deter it.

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

The very flexibility and ease...

The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man who has a few friends, or one who has a dozen (if there be any one so wealthy on this earth), cannot forget on how precarious a base his happiness reposes; and how by a stroke or two of fate --a death, a few light words, a piece of stamped paper, a woman's bright eyes --he may be left, in a month, destitute of all.

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

To love playthings well as a ...

To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor.

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

The cruelest lies are often t...

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

Had be been Shakespeare, he w...

Had be been Shakespeare, he would then have written Troilus and Cressidato brand the offending sex; but being only a little dog, he began to bite them.

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

We are not content to pass aw...

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

All sorts of allowances are m...

All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

The bold may not live long, b...

The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

and he began to understand wh...

and he began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry!

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

The world has no room for cow...

The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die.

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

Give us grace and strength to...

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. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavours. If it may not, give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temparate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another.

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

If you want a person's faults...

If you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know.

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

Do not write merely to be und...

Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

Sir, with no intention to tak...

Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

Everyday courage has few witn...

Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

In each of us, two natures ar...

In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

The saints are the sinners wh...

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

Life is not a matter of holdi...

Life is not a matter of holding good cards

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

Keep busy at something: a bus...

Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy.

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

There is an idea abroad among...

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.

Robert Louis Stevenson 555 quotes

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