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We should wipe two words from our vocabulary: gratitude and charity. In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it is not valued; it is received from the hand of friendship, or it is resented.

We should wipe two words from our vocabulary: gratitude and charity. In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it is not valued; it is received from the hand of friendship, or it is resented.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Gratitude, Real, Hands
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.444, e-artnow

We can only know others by ourselves.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Life, Happiness, Knows
Robert Louis Stevenson (1999). “The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays”, p.232, Cooper Square Press

No man is useless while he has a friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Friendship, Cheer, Real Friends
Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.550, Jazzybee Verlag

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Happiness, Being Happy, Humor

These are my politics: to change what we can; to better what we can; but still to bear in mind that man is but a devil weakly fettered by some generous beliefs and impositions; and for no word however sounding, and no cause however just and pious, to relax the stricture on these bonds.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Men, Generosity, Evil
'More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter' (1885) 'Epilogue of the Cigar Divan'

Live life to the fullest.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Inspirational, Life, Enthusiasm

To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Religious, Believe, Firsts
Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.41, Jazzybee Verlag

For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling world reach you no more.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Desire, Cabins, World
Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.6008, Delphi Classics

When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Happiness, Entrepreneur, Toil
Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Familiar Studies of Men and Books: Stevenson's Vol. 16”, p.65, VM eBooks

Take care of each other.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Inspirational, Care, Take Care
Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories”, p.119, Race Point Publishing

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Education, Money, Communication
Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.4809, Delphi Classics

When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Ships, Christianity, Christ

Make up your mind to be happy.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Mind, Make Up Your Mind

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Life, Retrospect, Action
Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.506, Jazzybee Verlag

When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Believe, Writing, Mind

Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule), no woman should marry a man who does not smoke.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Men, Golden, Doe
'Virginibus Puerisque' (1881) 'Virginibus Puerisque, pt. 1'

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Book, Writing, Mean
Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.592, Jazzybee Verlag

And this shall be for music when no one else is near, The fine song for singing, the rare song to hear! That only I remember, that only you admire, Of the broad road that stretches and the roadside fire.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Music, Song, Fire
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.135, e-artnow

Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.

Robert Louis Stevenson
School, College, Vitality
1881 Virginibus Puerisque,'An Apology for Idlers'.

When the teeth are shut the tongue is at home.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Home, Teeth, Tongue
Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Fables: Stevenson's Vol. 18”, p.28, VM eBooks

We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Pain, Passion, Animal

I am not afraid of the truth, if any one could tell it me, but I am afraid of parts of it impertinently uttered.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Not Afraid, Ifs
Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Essays in the Art of Writing(illustrated)”, p.23, Full Moon Publications

Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest

Robert Louis Stevenson
Suicide, Devil, Waking Life

A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Running, Men, Race
Robert Louis Stevenson, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne (1910*). “"Virginibus puerisque" and other papers. Memories and portraits. Familiar studies of men and books”

Things looked at patiently from one side after another generally end by showing a side that is beautiful.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Beautiful, Perspective, Sides
Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.5961, Delphi Classics

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