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To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret element of gusto.
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
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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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Cruel children, crying babies, All grow up as geese and gabies, Hated, as their age increases, By their nephews and their nieces.
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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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Saints are sinners who kept on going.
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We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren the battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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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 travel not to go anywhere, but to go.
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Make up your mind to be happy.
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We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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It was for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills. Sir, if that was my master, why had he a mask upon his face?
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To be overwise is to ossify and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.
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If this is death, it is easier than life.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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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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If you would grow great and stately, You must try to walk sedately.
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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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The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget.
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