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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Love, Respect, Fall
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”

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Wisdom, People, Ambitious
1881 Virginibus Puerisque,'Crabbed Age and Youth'.

There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Humility, Men, Two
Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Kidnapped: Stevenson's Vol. 23”, p.92, VM eBooks

and he began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry!

Robert Louis Stevenson
Sorry, Games, Play

Jew storekeepers have already learned the advantage to be gained from this [unlimited credit]: they lead on the farmer into irretrievable indebtedness, and keep him ever after as their bondslave hopelessly grinding in the mill.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Credit, Ever After, Advantage
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.259, e-artnow

Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement?

Robert Louis Stevenson
Achievement, Anything In Life

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Journey, Hiking, Sauntering
Travels with a Donkey "Cheylard and Luc" (1879)

It is just this rage for consideration that has betrayed the dog into his satellite position as the friend of man. The cat, an animal of franker appetites, preserves his independence. But the dog, with one eye ever on the audience, has been wheedled into slavery, and praised and patted into the renunciation of his nature. Once he ceased hunting and became man's plate-licker, the Rubicon was crossed. Thenceforth he was a gentleman of leisure; and except the few whom we keep working, the whole race grew more and more self-conscious, mannered and affected.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Dog, Cat, Eye
Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Memories and Portraits: Stevenson's Vol. 21”, p.65, VM eBooks

You can kill the body, but not the spirit.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Body, Spirit, Spirituality
"Collected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Including Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde".

Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Truth, Letters, Spirit

You seem to me to be a pretty lucky young man; keep your eyes open to your mercies. That part of piety is eternal; and the man who forgets to be grateful has fallen asleep in life.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Life, Thankful, Gratitude
"The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson".

I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Believe, People, Maps
Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Treasure Island (Illustrated)”, p.196, Top Five Books LLC

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?

Robert Louis Stevenson
Men, Proud, Be Proud
Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Travels With a Donkey”, p.4, Robert Louis Stevenson

I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Men, Two, Jekyll
Robert Louis Stevenson (2010). “Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde”, p.95, Bibliolis Books

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Love, Inspirational, Life
"Lay Morals".

My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Men, Ideas, Funeral
Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Novels of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated Edition): Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona, The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses, The Master of Ballantrae, St Ives: Adventures of a French Prisoner in England…”, p.1206, e-artnow

The world was made before English language, and seemingly upon a different design.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Design, Different, World
Robert Louis Stevenson (1999). “The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays”, p.97, Cooper Square Press

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Men, Vocabulary, Bread

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Hiking, Church, Mountain
Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson (1915). “An inland voyage. Travels with a donkey. The amateur emigrant. The Silverado squatters. Across the plains, with other memories and essays. The Silverado squatters. Across the plains, with other memories and essays”

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Giving, Grace, Mind
Robert Louis Stevenson, Roger Robinson (2004). “Robert Louis Stevenson: His Best Pacific Writings”, p.113, Univ. of Queensland Press

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Ideas, People, May
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.4794, e-artnow

Age may have one side, but assuredly Youth has the other. There is nothing more certain than that both are right, except perhaps that both are wrong.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Age, May, Sides
Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.4487, Delphi Classics

He is not easy to describe. There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable. I never saw a man I so disliked, and yet I scarce know why. He must be deformed somewhere; he gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I couldn’t specify the point. He’s an extraordinary-looking man, and yet I really can name nothing out of the way. No sir; I can make no hand of it; I can’t describe him. And it’s not want of memory; for I declare I can see him this moment.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Strong, Memories, Men
Robert Louis Stevenson “Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde”, Lulu.com

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Travel, Moving, Memorable
Travels with a Donkey "Cheylard and Luc" (1879)

Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Philosophical, Doctors, Years
'Virginibus Puerisque' (1881) 'Aes Triplex'

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