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That child of Hell had nothing human; nothing lived in him but fear and hatred.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Evil Nature, Human Fear, Inner Darkness, Fear, Hate, Evil

That child of Hell had nothing human; nothing lived in

That child of Hell had nothing human; nothing lived in

That child of Hell had nothing human; nothing lived in

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“A proposition of geometry does not compete with life; and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a work of art. Both are reasonable, both untrue to the crude fact; both inhere in nature, neither represents it.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Geometry Life, Art Vs Science, Life Art Parallel, Science, Art, Life

“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.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Grace Perseverance, Courage Mind, Friends Enemies, Grace, Courage, Perseverance

“You must suffer me to go my own dark way. I have brought on myself a punishment and a danger that I cannot name. If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also. I could not think that this earth contained a place for sufferings and terrors so unmanning.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Dark Way, Chief Sinners, Punishment Danger, Sinners, Punishment, Danger

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

Travel Sake, Moving Forward, Great Affair, Travel, Motion, Purpose

“I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Daily Success, Seed Sowing, Harvest Reflection, Effort, Patience, Perspective

“Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage Battle, Life Field, Roses Comparison, Marriage, Life, Battle

“The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Gender Rift, Social Teachings, Widened Gap, Gender, Teachings, Gap

“To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Fear Conquered, Courageous Action, Bravery Defined, Fear, Courage, Bravery

“So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of generous acts.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Prudence Fungus, Generous Paralysis, Brain Growth, Prudence, Generosity, Paralysis

“To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

True Happiness, Want Need, Begin End, Happiness, Desire, Perspective

“We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Life Challenge, Quality Growth, Stature Realization, Challenge, Growth, Life

“We should wipe two words from our vocabulary: gratitude and charity. In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it is not valued; it is received from the hand of friendship, or it is resented.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Erase Words, Real Friendship, Charity Gratitude, Help, Friendship, Value

“We are all such as He was – the inheritors of sin; we must all bear and expiate a past which was not ours; there is in all of us – ay, even in me – a sparkle of the divine. Like Him, we must endure for a little while, until morning returns bringing peace.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Inherited Sin, Divine Spark, Human Burden, Redemption, Suffering, Peace

“He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Hurry Indigestion, Sowing Reaping, Patience Reward, Haste, Health, Patience

“Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Life Challenge, Bravery, Health Struggles, Time Perspective, Personal Resolve, Overcoming Odds

“Although I express myself with some degree of pleasantry, the purport of my words is entirely serious.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Expressing Words, Serious Intent, Subtle Humor, Expression, Words, Serious

“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

Calm Minds, Unshaken Resolve, Inner Peace, Minds, Resolve, Peace

“Away with funeral music-set The pipe to powerful lips- The cup of life’s for him that drinks And not for him that sips.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Life Embraced, Powerful Lips, Sip Or Drink, Life, Enjoyment, Embrace

“There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Quiet Fellowship, Perfect Solitude, Shared Peace, Solitude, Fellowship, Peace

“How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do!”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Child’s Swing, Air Play, Pleasant Joy, Childhood, Play, Fun