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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.
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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Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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The saddest object in civilization, and to my mind the greatest confession of its failure, is the man who can work, who wants work, and who is not allowed to work.
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I sat in the sun on a bench the animal within me licking the chops of memory the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin.
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Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.
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And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought.
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Must we to bed indeed? Well then, Let us arise and go like men, And face with an undaunted tread The long black passage up to bed.
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A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.
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This profusion of eccentricities, this dream in masonry and living rock is not a drop scene in a theatre, but a city in the world of reality.
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But of works of art little can be said.
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It takes hard writing to make easy reading.
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A little amateur painting in water colors shows the innocent and the quiet mind.
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.
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The true success is to labour.
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There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.
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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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I've a grand memory for forgetting.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.
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It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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