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To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.

To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Inspirational Love, Love Is, Garden

The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain common work as it comes certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Life, Stars, Flower

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Memories, Forget
'Kidnapped' (1886) ch. 18

To forget oneself is to be happy.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Forget, Forgetfulness, Oneself
Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Memories and Portraits: Stevenson's Vol. 21”, p.17, VM eBooks

Youth is wholly experimental.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Youth
Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Across the Plains”, p.179, BookRix

To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Fear, Men, Kind
Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Kidnapped”, p.130, Xist Publishing

It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Destiny, Shells, Taste
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.6307, e-artnow

Some places speak distinctly. Certain dark gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwreck.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Dark, Garden, House

To be wealthy, a rich nature is the first requisite and money but the second. To be of a quick and healthy blood, to share in all honorable curiosities, to be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness-these are the gifts of fortune which money cannot buy, and without which money can buy nothing.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Heart, Character, Love Is
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.6307, e-artnow

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Inspiring, Book, Reading
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.4654, e-artnow

The bourgeoisie's weapon is starvation. If as a writer or artist you run counter to their narrow notions they simplyand silently withdraw your means of subsistence. I sometimes wonder how many people of talent are executed in this way every year.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Running, Mean, Artist
Quoted by Lloyd Osbourne in 'The Death of Stevenson', preface To Tusitala edition of Weir of Hermiston (published 1924).

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Luck, Aversion, Indifference
'The New Arabian Nights' (1882) 'The Rajah's Diamond: Story of the Bandbox'

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Girl, Sex, Teaching
Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.581, Jazzybee Verlag

Life is not a matter of holding good cards

Robert Louis Stevenson
Cards, Matter, Life Is

Everyone lives by selling something.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Life, Business, Marketing
'Across the Plains' (1892) 'Beggars' pt. 3

Ice and iron cannot be welded.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Ice, Iron
Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.1784, Delphi Classics

The true success is to labour.

Robert Louis Stevenson
True Success, Labour
'Virginibus Puerisque' (1881) 'El Dorado'

You must suffer me to go my own dark way.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Dark, Suffering, Way
Robert Louis Stevenson (2010). “Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde”, p.53, Bibliolis Books

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Soul, Desire, Alive
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.12, e-artnow

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Men, Vanity, Cases
Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “The Wrecker: Stevenson's Vol. 19”, p.56, VM eBooks

Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Art, Disappointment, Sightseeing
Robert Louis Stevenson (2006). “The Silverado Squatters: Easyread Large Edition”, p.17, ReadHowYouWant.com

If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Marriage, People, Married
Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.4453, Delphi Classics

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Life, Divorce, Acceptance

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Marriage, Long, Disputes
Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson”, p.78, Sheba Blake Publishing

Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Life, Time, Work

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