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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bread catch creature lives man
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catch words.
brains fool fools-and-foolishness himself man
For God's sake, give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself
aspiration estate joy landed possession solid
An aspiration is a joy for ever, a possession as solid as a landed estate
lamp practice precepts unto
He who knoweth the precepts by heart, but faileth to practice them, is like unto one who lighteth a lamp and then shutteth his eyes.
putting strongly style
I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgment.
difficulty literature mean
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean
disloyal friend hours lies lies-and-lying man opened room sat vile
The cruellest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.
checkered conversation marriage
Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.
brains fool himself man
Give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself
lives scottish-writer selling whatever
Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it.
harvest judge seeds
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
joke kant share
You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else
among flourish onion poetic rose salad soul wine
Let first the onion flourish there, Rose among the roots, the maiden-fair Wine scented and poetic soul of the capacious salad bowl.
calls devotion man neglect perpetual sustained
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.