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After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Age: 44 †
Born: 1850
Born: November 13
Died: 1894
Died: December 3
Essayist
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Edinburgh
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Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Luis Stivensoni
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Robert Loui Sitivensin
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Lui Stivenson
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His past was fairly blameless few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension yet he was humbled to the dust by the many ill things he had done, and raised up again into sober and fearful gratitude by the many he had come so near to doing, yet avoided.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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There comes an end to all things the most capacious measure is filled at last and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.
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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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Some day...after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you.
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Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.
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Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn Disturbs the eternal sleep, But in the stillness far withdrawn Our dreamless rest for evermore we keep.
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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Make up your mind to be happy.
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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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Everyone lives by selling something.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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They say cowardice is infectious but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener.
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Jew storekeepers have already learned the advantage to be gained from this [unlimited credit]: they lead on the farmer into irretrievable indebtedness, and keep him ever after as their bondslave hopelessly grinding in the mill.
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There are, indeed, few merrier spectacles than that of many windmills bickering together in a fresh breeze over a woody country their halting alacrity of movement, their pleasant business, making bread all day with uncouth gesticulation their air, gigantically human, as of a creature half alive, put a spirit of romance into the tamest landscape.
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Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body.
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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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