Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Biography: Robert Louis Stevenson is best known for his novels "Treasure Island" ... more Biography: Robert Louis Stevenson is best known for his novels "Treasure Island" and "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde." Born in 1850 in Scotland, Stevenson ventured into writing after studying engineering and law. His adventurous spirit and vivid imagination have left an enduring impact on literature. less

"To forget oneself is to be happy.""Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.""So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable and no man is useless while he has a friend.""Every man is his own doctor of divinity in the last resort.""You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.""Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap.""There is one thing a scientific man ought to never do, and that is to doubt Fe.""A good conscience is eight parts of courage.""You cannot divide the living from the dead.""Doubt of any sort cannot be removed except by action.""You can kill the body but not the spirit.""Everyone lives by selling something.""Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.""In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil.""Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate""There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign""The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us""To forget oneself is to be happy""Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences""You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish"

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