About Robert Louis Stevenson
1850 – 1894
Scottish novelist and essayist, author of "Treasure Island" and "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde".
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“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.”
“Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.”
“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
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“Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.”
“If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.”
“How long will men dare to call anything expedient that is not right?”
“In hidden inwardness all are Christians; who would dare deny this?”