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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.
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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Some people swallow the universe like a pill they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.
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The spirit, Sir, is one of mockery.
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O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.
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It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to reawaken in us the sharp edge of sense and that impression of mystic strangeness which otherwise passes out of life with the coming of years but the sight of a loved face is what renews a man's character from the fountain upwards.
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Let first the onion flourish there, Rose among roots, the maiden-fair, Wine-scented and poetic soul Of the capacious salad bowl.
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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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Being happy enables you to be free from domination by the outside world.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.
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