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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.
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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It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier. The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro, A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane. Autumn leaves and rain, The passion of the gale.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.
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The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart.
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Loving God, help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds, and the worship of the wise men.
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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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It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity.
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Make up your mind to be happy.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.
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I incline to Cain's heresy, he used to say quaintly: I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.
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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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The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
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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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Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.
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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 hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens.
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There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science but it is all round about you, and for the trouble of looking, that you will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life.
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Little do ye know your own blessedness for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
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To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.
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