All Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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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.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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So long as we love, we serve; 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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We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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