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Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.
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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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as simple and specious as a statue to the first glance, and yet on examination, as lively and interesting as a forest in detail.
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In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel.
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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You have no idea, unless you have tried it, how endlessly long is a summer's day, that you measure out only by hunger, and bring to an end only when you are drowsy.
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It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point, indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.
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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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It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.
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Things looked at patiently from one side after another generally end by showing a side that is beautiful.
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This is still the strangest thing in all man's travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories.
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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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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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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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When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.
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For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!
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Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.
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Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them, Fair the fall of songs When the singer sings them. Still they are carolled and said - On wings they are carried - After the singer is dead And the maker buried.
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The essence of love is kindness.
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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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A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.
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