Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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.
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
The obscurest epoch is today.
The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
The world has no room for cowards.
The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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.
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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BirthDate
13 November, 1850
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03 December, 1894
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Scotland
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