When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONFiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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