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This grove, that was now so peaceful, must then have rung with cries, I thought and even with the thought I could believe I heard it ringing still.
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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You're either my ship's cook-and then you were treated handsome-or Cap'n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang!
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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Some day...after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you.
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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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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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The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
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There comes an end to all things the most capacious measure is filled at last and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.
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Hope looks for unqualified success but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.
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