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#1

“The famed author Robert Lewis Stevenson declared that he'd trained his Brownies to be writers. As he slept, they would whisper fantastic plots in his ear -- for example, the strange case of Dr. Jekyll and the diabolical Mr. Hyde, and that episode in "Olalla" when a young man from an old Spanish family bites his sister's hand.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, The Book of Imaginary Beings

tags: dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde, robert-louis-stevenson, writing

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#2

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

tags: day, inspirational, judge, plant, reap, seed, seeds, sow

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#3

“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes

tags: travel

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#4

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

tags: life

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#5

“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: books, inspirational, on-writing, reading

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#6

“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

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#7

“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: friend, honesty

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#8

“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: courage, fear, leadership, strength

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#9

“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Silverado Squatters

tags: foreigners, openmindedness, travel

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#10

“Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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#11

“A friend is a gift you give yourself.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: friend, gift, give, self

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#12

“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Familiar Studies of Men and Books

tags: achievement, fulfillment, meaning-of-life

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#13

“The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

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#14

“The opposite of poverty is not wealth. In too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice.”
― Bryan Stevenson

tags: social-justice

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#15

“You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: giving, love

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#16

“To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, An Inland Voyage

tags: independent-thought, individualism, preference

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#17

“You must suffer me to go my own dark way.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

tags: burden, punishment, seclusion, secret

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#18

“There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped

tags: goodness, humility, inspirational

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#19

“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

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#20

“The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain common work as it comes certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

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#21

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

tags: success

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#22

“The world is so full of a number of things, I ’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child's Garden of Verses

tags: happiness, inspirational

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#23

“Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: inspirational, motivational

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