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Robert Louis Stevenson

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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, and poet best known for *Treasure Island*, *Kidnapped*, and *Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde*. A masterful storyteller with a gift for vivid prose, Stevenson's adventure tales and psychological fiction have entertained readers for well over a century.

“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

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All Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

“An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Life

“When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Great

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Good

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Success

“There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Good

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Good

“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

Great

“You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Business

“Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Business

“Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Inspirational

“It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Health

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Politics

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Inspirational

“I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Nature

“Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Best

“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Courage

“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.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Art

“It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Gardening

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Love