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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Happiness, Perspective, Entrepreneur
Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Dreams of Elsewhere”, p.162, Neil Wilson Publishing

A knowledge that another has felt as we have felt, and seen things not much otherwise than we have seen them, will continue to the end to be one of life's choicest blessings.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Friendship, Blessing, Ends

A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Prayer, Believe, Angel
Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.2610, Delphi Classics

Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Quality, Vices, Life Is
Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.95, Jazzybee Verlag

Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted mostly.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Night, Long, Cheese
'Treasure Island' (1883) ch. 15

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Book, Idlers, Way

Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Strong, Catholic, Identity
1881 Virginibus Puerisque,'An Apology for Idlers'.

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Devil, Sometimes, Gentlemanly
Tom Hubbard, Robert Louis Stevenson (1995). “Seeking Mr. Hyde: Studies in Robert Louis Stevenson, Symbolism, Myth, and the Pre-modern”

The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart; She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Food, Heart, White
Robert Louis Stevenson, Fern Bisel Peat (2012). “A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.34, Courier Dover Publications

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Inspirational, Bikers, Ethics And Morals
"The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson".

The fact is, we are much more afraid of life than our ancestors, and cannot find it inourhearts either tomarry or not tomarry.Marriage isterrifying, but so is a cold and forlorn old age.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Age, Facts, Cold

Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Somewhere Else, Preparation, Different
Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.5863, Delphi Classics

Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Marriage, Suicide, Married
'Virginibus Puerisque' (1881) 'Virginibus Puerisque, pt. 2'

I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Spiritual, Memories, Animal
Robert Louis Stevenson (2011). “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: A Kaplan SAT Score-Raising Classic”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Men, Long, Care
Robert Louis Stevenson (1993). “The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: The Merry Men and Other Stories”, p.113, Wordsworth Editions

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Inspirational, Dream, Joy
Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.638, Jazzybee Verlag

You're either my ship's cook-and then you were treated handsome-or Cap'n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang!

Robert Louis Stevenson
Pirate, Handsome, Ships
Robert Louis Stevenson (2012). “Treasure Island”, p.85, Courier Corporation

And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Men, Anecdotes, Littles
Robert Louis Stevenson (1999). “The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays”, p.36, Cooper Square Press

If you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Want, Faults, Persons
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.6072, e-artnow

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Shadow, Use, Littles
1885 A Child's Garden of Verses, no.18,'My Shadow', stanza1.

The saddest object in civilization, and to my mind the greatest confession of its failure, is the man who can work, who wants work, and who is not allowed to work.

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

It is better to be a fool than to be dead.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Inspirational, Fool
Virginibus Puerisque "Crabbed Age and Youth" (1881)

Saints are sinners who kept on going.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Perseverance, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they disengage us from ourselves, they constrain us to the acquaintance of others; and they show us the web of experience, but with a singular change-that monstrous, consuming ego of ours being, nonce, struck out.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Life Lesson, Book, Writing
Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Essays in the Art of Writing(illustrated)”, p.25, Full Moon Publications

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Strong, Identity, Idle
"Words of Wisdom and Quotable Quote" by Dr. A.N. P. Ummerkutty, p. 77, August, 2005.

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