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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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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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Now, to be properly enjoyed, a walking tour should be gone upon alone.... Freedom is of the essence, because you should be able to stop and go on and follow this way or that as the freak takes you.... There should be no cackle of voices at your elbow to jar on the meditative silence of the morning.
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.
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Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity.
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It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse.
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The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain common work as it comes certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.
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The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget.
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I wish these flies would piss off.
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With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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A little amateur painting in water colors shows the innocent and the quiet mind.
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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.
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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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But of works of art little can be said.
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In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer to forget oneself is to be happy.
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I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best nothing is so interesting as weeding. I went crazy over the outdoor work, and at last had to confine myself to the house, or literature must have gone by the board.
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There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome.
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There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . . . it quiets a man down like saying his prayers.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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