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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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Everything is true only the opposite is true too you must believe both equally or be damned.
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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But of works of art little can be said.
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...those little people, my brownies, who do one half of my work for me while I am fast asleep, and in all human likelihood do the rest for me as well, when I am wide awake and fondly suppose I do for myself.
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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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There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.
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Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.
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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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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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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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There is no foreign land it is the traveller only that is foreign.
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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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