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It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.
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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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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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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I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.
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Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness.
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To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor.
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In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel.
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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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To miss the joy is to miss everything.
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The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.
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But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognised by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realised, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.
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I incline to Cain's heresy, he used to say quaintly: I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.
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To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.
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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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It is almost as if the millennium were arrived, when we shall throw our clocks and watches over the housetop, and remember time and seasons no more. Not to keep hours for a lifetime is... to live forever.
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my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head, Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.
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If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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Youth now flees on feathered foot.
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