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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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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Going for character: why not now, and where you stand?
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An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.
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His past was fairly blameless few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension yet he was humbled to the dust by the many ill things he had done, and raised up again into sober and fearful gratitude by the many he had come so near to doing, yet avoided.
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Fear is the strong passion it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.
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But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognised by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realised, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.
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I incline to Cain's heresy, he used to say quaintly: I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.
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Live life to the fullest.
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My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring
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This is still the strangest thing in all man's travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories.
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