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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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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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Little do ye know your own blessedness for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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You're either my ship's cook-and then you were treated handsome-or Cap'n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang!
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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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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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The saddest object in civilization, and to my mind the greatest confession of its failure, is the man who can work, who wants work, and who is not allowed to work.
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A proposition of geometry does not compete with life and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a work of art. Both are reasonable, both untrue to the crude fact both inhere in nature, neither represents it.
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There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science but it is all round about you, and for the trouble of looking, that you will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.
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It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity.
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The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.
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Fear is the strong passion it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.
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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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Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.
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The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die.
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