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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Age: 44 †
Born: 1850
Born: November 13
Died: 1894
Died: December 3
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Go, little book, and wish to all Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall, A bin of wine, a spice of wit, A house with lawns enclosing it, A living river by the door, A nightingale in the sycamore!
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We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a legend.
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The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.
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Now, to be properly enjoyed, a walking tour should be gone upon alone.... Freedom is of the essence, because you should be able to stop and go on and follow this way or that as the freak takes you.... There should be no cackle of voices at your elbow to jar on the meditative silence of the morning.
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Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.
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When I was a boy, I was a bit puzzled, and hardly knew weather it was myself or the world that was curious and worth looking into. Now I know that it is myself, and stick to that.
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But of works of art little can be said.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought.
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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Everything is true only the opposite is true too you must believe both equally or be damned.
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.
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If this is death, it is easier than life.
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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.
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You're either my ship's cook-and then you were treated handsome-or Cap'n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang!
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A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so.
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