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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Death, Lying, Father

Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Baxter (1973). “RLS: Stevenson's Letters to Charles Baxter”

When I was a boy, I was a bit puzzled, and hardly knew weather it was myself or the world that was curious and worth looking into. Now I know that it is myself, and stick to that.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Boys, Weather, World

Robert Louis Stevenson (2000). “The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables”, p.68, iUniverse

The FlowersAll the names I know from nurse:Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse,Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock,And the Lady Hollyhock.Fairy places, fairy things,Fairy woods where the wild bee wings,Tiny trees for tiny dames-These must all be fairy names!Tiny woods below whose boughsShady fairies weave a house;Tiny tree-tops, rose or thyme,Where the braver fairies climb!Fair are grown-up people's trees,But the fairest woods are these;Where, if I were not so tall,I should live for good and all

Robert Louis Stevenson

Names, Wings, Rose

Robert Louis Stevenson (1971). “Collected poems”, Not Avail

O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song!

Robert Louis Stevenson

Song, Wind, Long

Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson: A Child's Garden of Verses, Underwoods, Songs of Travel, Ballads and Other Poems by a prolific Scottish writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped”, p.99, e-artnow

Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular-letter to the friends of him who writes it.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Book, Writing, Letters

Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona”, p.88, e-artnow

Anyone can carry their burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do their work, however hard, for one day.

Robert Louis Stevenson

One Day, Today, Nightfall

But we are so fond of life that we have no leisure to entertain the terror of death. It is a honeymoon with us all through, and none of the longest. Small blame to us if we give our whole hearts to this glowing bride of ours, to the appetities, to honour, to the hungry curiosity of the mind, to the pleasure of the eyes in nature, and the pride of our own nimble bodies.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Death, Eye, Heart

Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.4596, e-artnow

To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude...

Robert Louis Stevenson

Life, Men, Tasks

"Across the Plains" by Robert Louis Stevenson, (Ch. XII), 1892.

Let first the onion flourish there, Rose among roots, the maiden-fair, Wine-scented and poetic soul Of the capacious salad bowl.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Wine, Roots, Rose

Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson: A Child's Garden of Verses, Underwoods, Songs of Travel, Ballads and Other Poems by a prolific Scottish writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped”, p.186, e-artnow

In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Book, Reading, Names

Robert Louis Stevenson (1999). “The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays”, p.172, Cooper Square Press

I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Jekyll, Elements, Beloved

Robert Louis Stevenson (2005). “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, second edition”, p.79, Broadview Press

For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

Robert Louis Stevenson

Inspirational, God, Time

Virginibus Puerisque "Crabbed Age and Youth" (1881)

There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Evil, Soul, Balance

Robert Louis Stevenson (2005). “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, second edition”, p.88, Broadview Press

His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Blood, Ivy, Growth

Robert Louis Stevenson (1993). “The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: The Merry Men and Other Stories”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

I wish these flies would piss off.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Wish

You have no idea, unless you have tried it, how endlessly long is a summer's day, that you measure out only by hunger, and bring to an end only when you are drowsy.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Summer, Ideas, Long

Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.4544, Delphi Classics

Although I may express myself with some degree of pleasantry the purport of my words is entirely serious.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Degrees, Serious, Pleasantries

"The Complete Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson".

Happiness, eternal or temporal, is not the reward that mankind seeks, Happinesses are but his wayside companions. His soul is in the journey and in the struggle.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Struggle, Journey, Soul

His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to the dust by the many ill things he had done, and raised up again into sober and fearful gratitude by the many he had come so near to doing, yet avoided.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Gratitude, Past, Men

Robert Louis Stevenson (2010). “Markheim, Jekyll And The Merry Men”, p.242, Canongate Books

All I dreamed about Dr. Jekyll was that one man was being pressed into a cabinet, when he swallowed a drug and changed into another being. I awoke and said at once that I had found the missing link for which I had been looking so long, and before I went again to sleep almost every detail of the story, as it stands, was clear to me. Of course, writing it was another thing.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Writing, Sleep, Men

Robert Louis Stevenson (1993). “The complete short stories”

It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point, indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Civilization, Modern, Umbrella

Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Third Edition”, p.251, Broadview Press

A little amateur painting in water colors shows the innocent and the quiet mind.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Color, Water, Mind

Really don't choose every day from the harvest you experience but from the seeds you plant

Robert Louis Stevenson

Harvest, Plant, Seeds

We were to found a University magazine. A pair of little, active brothers-Livingstone by name, great skippers on the foot, great rubbers of the hands, who kept a book-shop over against the University building-had been debauched to play the part of publishers. We four were to be conjuct editors and, what was the main point of the concern, to print our own works; while, by every rule of arithmetic-that flatterer of credulity-the adventure must succeed and bring great profit. Well, well: it was a bright vision.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Brother, Book, Adventure

Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.54, Jazzybee Verlag