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Letter "R" » Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
«A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation.»
«To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an non-teachable brat, well birched and none the wiser»
«To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive.»
«If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong»
«When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.»
«We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.»
«Give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself»
«Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.»
«An ivory-faced and silvery-haired old woman opened the door. She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent.»
«Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life»

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