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Robert Louis Stevenson

Read through the most famous quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson




A good conscience is eight parts of courage.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


#courage #courage

Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man?


— Robert Louis Stevenson


#humanity #humility #leadership #power #leadership

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


#beauty

The horror with which blind and unjust law regards an action never attaches to the doer in the eyes of those who love him.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


#love

For marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


#bed-of-roses #love #marriage #matrimony #war

¿Acaso hay algo en la vida que decepcione tanto como lograr lo que se quiere?


— Robert Louis Stevenson


#life #success #life

Let any one speak long enough, he will get believers.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


#prophets #quackery #faith

In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for a practical existence.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


#art

What are you able to build with your blocks? Castles and palaces, temples and docks. Rain may keep raining, and others go roam, But I can be happy and building at home.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


#home

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


#business






About Robert Louis Stevenson

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Did you know about Robert Louis Stevenson?

As my mother said "This is the heaviest affliction that has ever befallen me". Short story collections
New Arabian Nights (1882)
More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter (1885); co-written with Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson
The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables (1887); contains 6 stories. Stephen in turn would introduce him to a more important friend.

His works have been admired by many other writers including Jorge Luis Borges Ernest Hemingway Rudyard Kipling Marcel Schwob Vladimir NabokovJ. A literary celebrity during his lifetime Stevenson now ranks among the 26 most translated authors in the world. His most famous works are Treasure Island Kidnapped and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

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