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 love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden""There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign""The saints are the sinners who keep on trying""It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit""Sit loosely in the saddle of life""Our purpose in life is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow""Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm""Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind""The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect""You think those dogs will not be in heaven I tell you they will be there long before any of us""To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive""Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits""Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer""The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances""That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much""There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy""The cruelest lies are often told in silence""Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences""Wine is bottled poetry""Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was"

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