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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.
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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To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.
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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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I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
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A birdie with a yellow bill Hoped upon the window sill, Cocked his shining eye and said: 'Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-'ead?
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Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.
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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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I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.
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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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Must we to bed indeed? Well then, Let us arise and go like men, And face with an undaunted tread The long black passage up to bed.
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Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity.
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A knowledge that another has felt as we have felt, and seen things not much otherwise than we have seen them, will continue to the end to be one of life's choicest blessings.
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Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.
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We do not go to cowards for tender dealing there is nothing so cruel as panic the man who has least fear for his own carcase, has most time to consider others.
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