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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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 Lewis Balfour Stevenson
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Robert Loui Sitivensin
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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Love- what is love? A great and aching heart Wrung hands and silence and a long despair
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Friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway. The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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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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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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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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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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These are my politics: to change what we can to better what we can but still to bear in mind that man is but a devil weakly fettered by some generous beliefs and impositions and for no word however sounding, and no cause however just and pious, to relax the stricture on these bonds.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.
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Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.
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If he be Mr. Hyde he had thought, I shall be Mr. Seek.
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The spirit, Sir, is one of mockery.
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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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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 most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
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