Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis 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...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth13 November 1850
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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Children are certainly too good to be true.
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I know what happiness is, for I have done good work.
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There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terward" - Long John Silver
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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
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I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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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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The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.