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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Age: 44 †
Born: 1850
Born: November 13
Died: 1894
Died: December 3
Essayist
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Edinburgh
Scotland
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Robert Luis Stivensoni
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Stivenson
Robert Loui Sitivensin
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Robert Lui Stivenson
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RL Stevenson
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and he began to understand what a wild game we play in life he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying I am sorry!
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Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.
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Youth is wholly experimental.
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Be what you are, and become what you are capable of becoming.
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Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.
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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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Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness.
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Some people swallow the universe like a pill they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.
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We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren the battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun.
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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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-I am not sure whether he's sane. -If there's any doubt about the matter, he is.
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I've a grand memory for forgetting.
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It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point, indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.
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I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
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With the half of a broken hope for a pillow at night That somehow the right is the right And the smooth shall bloom from the rough: Lord, if that were enough?
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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Away with funeral music-set The pipe to powerful lips- The cup of life's for him that drinks And not for him that sips.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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And this shall be for music when no one else is near, The fine song for singing, the rare song to hear! That only I remember, that only you admire, Of the broad road that stretches and the roadside fire.
Robert Louis Stevenson
