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Some people swallow the universe like a pill they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.
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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Robert Loui Sitivensin
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Robert Lui Stivenson
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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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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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Let first the onion flourish there, Rose among roots, the maiden-fair, Wine-scented and poetic soul Of the capacious salad bowl.
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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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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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Now, to be properly enjoyed, a walking tour should be gone upon alone.... Freedom is of the essence, because you should be able to stop and go on and follow this way or that as the freak takes you.... There should be no cackle of voices at your elbow to jar on the meditative silence of the morning.
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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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I am painfully situated, Utterson my position is a very strange - a very strange one. It is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking.
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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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My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.
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After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.
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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 would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best nothing is so interesting as weeding. I went crazy over the outdoor work, and at last had to confine myself to the house, or literature must have gone by the board.
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It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!
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These are my politics: to change what we can to better what we can but still to bear in mind that man is but a devil weakly fettered by some generous beliefs and impositions and for no word however sounding, and no cause however just and pious, to relax the stricture on these bonds.
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In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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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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