-I am not sure whether he's sane. -If there's any doubt about the matter, he is. Robert Louis Stevenson More Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson More Quotes From Robert Louis Stevenson To the old our mouths are always partly closed; we must swallow our obvious retorts and listen. They sit above our heads, on life's raised dais, and appeal at once to our respect and pity. Robert Louis Stevenson retorts pity mouths Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body. Robert Louis Stevenson body mind world O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song! Robert Louis Stevenson song wind long Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me. Robert Louis Stevenson wealth heaven travel The bourgeoisie's weapon is starvation. If as a writer or artist you run counter to their narrow notions they simplyand silently withdraw your means of subsistence. I sometimes wonder how many people of talent are executed in this way every year. Robert Louis Stevenson artist running mean There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk; to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome. Robert Louis Stevenson welcome gay ambition If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he often laments his youth a deal more bitterly and with a more genuine intonation. Robert Louis Stevenson youth age men There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science; but it is all round about you, and for the trouble of looking, that you will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life. Robert Louis Stevenson chill trouble facts It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger. Robert Louis Stevenson mystery happiness people An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils". Robert Louis Stevenson intelligent eye ears Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debate are as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements and alarms cast the die for any tempted and trembling sinner; and it fell out with me, as it falls with so vast a majority of my fellows, that I chose the better part and was found wanting in the strength to keep to it. Robert Louis Stevenson alarms men fall This was the shocking thing; that the slime of the pit seemed to utter cries and voices; that the amorphous dust gesticulated and sinned; that what was dead, and had no shape, should usurp the offices of life. And this again, that that insurgent horror was knit to him closer than a wife, closer than an eye; lay caged in his flesh, where he heard it mutter and felt it struggle to be born; and at every hour of weakness, and in the confidence of slumber, prevailed against him, and deposed him out of life. Robert Louis Stevenson dust eye struggle There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul. Robert Louis Stevenson balance soul evil There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terward. Robert Louis Stevenson good-day eye men It was Silver's voice, and before I had heard a dozen words, I would not have shown myself for all the world. I lay there, trembling and listening, in the extreme of fear and curiostiy, for, in those dozen words, I understood that the lives of all the honest men aboard depended on me alone. Robert Louis Stevenson voice listening men Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end. Robert Louis Stevenson jekyll confession unhappy It was for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills. Sir, if that was my master, why had he a mask upon his face? Robert Louis Stevenson jekyll faces hair If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek. Robert Louis Stevenson mr-hyde hide-and-seek hyde If it comes to a swinging, swing all, say I. Robert Louis Stevenson swings ifs You're either my ship's cook-and then you were treated handsome-or Cap'n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang! Robert Louis Stevenson handsome ships pirate
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