Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Louis Balfour Stevensonwas a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and A Child's Garden of Verses...
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depend morals wrong
If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong
marriage
Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.
evil manners opened smoothed woman
An ivory-faced and silvery-haired old woman opened the door. She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent.
delay extra officers
Every day we delay this decision, that's another day we don't have extra officers on the road,
saints sinners
The saints are the sinners who keep on going
loved man scottish-writer useless
No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable.
lives scottish-writer selling useful
I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something.
clock fortune minds misfortune perplexed private quiet
Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
anyone carry goes however life sun till until
Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means.
appear biting desert expect island man nails sane three
A man who has been three years biting his nails on a desert island can't expect to appear as sane as you and me.
acts center element forbidden imagination introduce judgments morality secret
To make our idea of morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow-men a secret element of gusto.
humbly instead ought saying soul tells
To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive.
best honest travelers travels wilderness
We are all travelers in the wilderness of the World, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
best friend honest travellers travels wilderness
We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend