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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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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Anyone can carry their burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do their work, however hard, for one day.
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And the true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss the joy is to miss all.
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Ice and iron cannot be welded.
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In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer to forget oneself is to be happy.
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The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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Nobody speaks of a beautifful view for 5 minutes
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body.
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Do not forget that even as to work is to worship so to be cheery is to worship also, and to be happy is the first step to being pious.
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Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.
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Make up your mind to be happy.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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Little do ye know your own blessedness for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
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There is indeed one element in human destiny that not blindness itself can controvert: whatever else we are intended to do, we are not intended to succeed failure is the fate allotted. It is so in every art and study it is so above all in the continent art of living well.
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Had be been Shakespeare, he would then have written Troilus and Cressidato brand the offending sex but being only a little dog, he began to bite them.
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The San Francisco Stock Exchange was the place that continuously pumped up the savings of the lower classes into the pockets of the millionaires.
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The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget.
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The outer world, from which we cower into our houses, seemed after all a gentle habitable place and night after night a man's bed, it seemed, was laid and waiting for him in the fields, where God keeps an open house.
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