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Robert Louis Stevenson

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Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for the novels Treasure Island (1883), Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), and Kidnapped (1886) and for the poetry collection A Child's Garden of Verses (1885).

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Quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson

To forget oneself is to be happy.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

There is no duty we so much underrate as the as the duty of being happy.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the world.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometime fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

—Robert Louis Stevenson

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passersby to come and love us.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

—Robert Louis Stevenson