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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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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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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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Every child can remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies.
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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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O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.
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All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.
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Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.
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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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The sticks break, the stones crumble, The eternal altars tilt and tumble, Sanctions and tales dislimn like mist About the amazed evangelist. He stands unshook from age to youth Upon one pin-point of the truth.
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To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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The seeming significance of nature's appearances, their unchanging strangeness to the senses, and the thrilling response which they awaken in the mind of man . . . If we could only write near enough to the facts, and yet with no pedestrian calm, but ardently, we might transfer the glamour of reality direct upon our pages.
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Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.
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Saints are sinners who kept on going.
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