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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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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Edinburgh
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Robert Luis Stivensoni
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We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a legend.
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Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.
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Things looked at patiently from one side after another generally end by showing a side that is beautiful.
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Cruel children, crying babies, All grow up as geese and gabies, Hated, as their age increases, By their nephews and their nieces.
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The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.
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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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...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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The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die.
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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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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils.
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In the other gardens And all up the vale, From the autumn bonfies See the smoke trail! Pleasant summer over And all the summer flowers, The red fire blazes, the grey smoke towers. Sing a song of seasons! Something bright in all, Flowers in the summer Fires in the fall!
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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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In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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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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In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.
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