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Robert Louis Stevenson

Read through the most famous quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson




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.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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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?


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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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.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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About Robert Louis Stevenson

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Did you know about Robert Louis Stevenson?

As my mother said "This is the heaviest affliction that has ever befallen me". Short story collections
New Arabian Nights (1882)
More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter (1885); co-written with Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson
The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables (1887); contains 6 stories. Stephen in turn would introduce him to a more important friend.

His works have been admired by many other writers including Jorge Luis Borges Ernest Hemingway Rudyard Kipling Marcel Schwob Vladimir NabokovJ. A literary celebrity during his lifetime Stevenson now ranks among the 26 most translated authors in the world. His most famous works are Treasure Island Kidnapped and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

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