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But of works of art little can be said.
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
Scotland
Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Luis Stivensoni
Shih-ti-wen-sheng
Stivenson
Robert Loui Sitivensin
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Lui Stivenson
RL Stivenson
RL Stevenson
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Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.
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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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A great part of this life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.
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Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.
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Make up your mind to be happy.
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Times are changed with him who marries there are no more by-path meadows, where you may innocently linger, but the road lies long and straight and dusty to the grave. Idleness, which is often becoming and even wise in the bachelor, begins to wear a different aspect when you have a wife to support.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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Away with funeral music-set The pipe to powerful lips- The cup of life's for him that drinks And not for him that sips.
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I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.
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The seeming significance of nature's appearances, their unchanging strangeness to the senses, and the thrilling response which they awaken in the mind of man . . . If we could only write near enough to the facts, and yet with no pedestrian calm, but ardently, we might transfer the glamour of reality direct upon our pages.
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There is indeed one element in human destiny that not blindness itself can controvert: whatever else we are intended to do, we are not intended to succeed failure is the fate allotted. It is so in every art and study it is so above all in the continent art of living well.
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It is almost as if the millennium were arrived, when we shall throw our clocks and watches over the housetop, and remember time and seasons no more. Not to keep hours for a lifetime is... to live forever.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so.
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The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner.
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But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.
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