Life left by all life's benefits forsaken,
O keep the promise, Lord, and take the life.
(The Vanquished Knight)
More Quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson:
I've a grand memory for forgetting.Robert Louis Stevenson
When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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Love but my dog and love my love,
Adore with me a common star -
I value not the rest above
The ashes of a bad cigar.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Saints are the Sinners who keep on trying.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognized by the police.
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