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I sat in the sun on a bench the animal within me licking the chops of memory the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Age: 44 †
Born: 1850
Born: November 13
Died: 1894
Died: December 3
Essayist
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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
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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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Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body.
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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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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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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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Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy.
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Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.
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