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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.

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“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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All Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Inspirational

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Success

“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

“You cannot run away from weakness you must some time fight it out or perish and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Time

“To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Motivational

“Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Travel

“In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Health

“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Great

“Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Best

“Wine is bottled poetry.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Poetry

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Good

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Gardening

“All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Good

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Love

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Courage

“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

“The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Money

“If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Success