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Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.
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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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say give them up, for they may be all you have but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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Loving God, help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds, and the worship of the wise men.
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Away with funeral music-set The pipe to powerful lips- The cup of life's for him that drinks And not for him that sips.
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I smoke a pipe abroad, because To all cigars I much prefer it, And as I scorn you social laws, My choice has nothing to deter it.
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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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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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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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A little amateur painting in water colors shows the innocent and the quiet mind.
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The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner.
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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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Some places speak distinctly. Certain dark gardens cry aloud for a murder certain old houses demand to be haunted certain coasts are set apart for shipwreck.
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Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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A great part of this life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.
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It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point, indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.
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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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