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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
Scotland
Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Luis Stivensoni
Shih-ti-wen-sheng
Stivenson
Robert Loui Sitivensin
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Lui Stivenson
RL Stivenson
RL Stevenson
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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.
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I've a grand memory for forgetting.
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To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.
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The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.
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Of what shall we be proud of if we are not proud of our friends?
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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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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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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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If he be Mr. Hyde he had thought, I shall be Mr. Seek.
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If this is death, it is easier than life.
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In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.
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I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
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and he began to understand what a wild game we play in life he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying I am sorry!
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Benjamin Franklin went through life an altered man because he once paid too dearly for a penny whistle. My concern springs usually from a deeper source, to wit, from having bought a whistle when I did not want one.
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It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
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The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner.
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