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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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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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Going for character: why not now, and where you stand?
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The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner.
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You cannot run away from weakness you must some time fight it out or perish and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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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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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.
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The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.
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The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart.
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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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Make up your mind to be happy.
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An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.
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Love- what is love? A great and aching heart Wrung hands and silence and a long despair
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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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We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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I've a grand memory for forgetting.
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Some people swallow the universe like a pill they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.
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