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Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.
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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Edinburgh
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O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.
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There is no foreign land it is the traveller only that is foreign.
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Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them, Fair the fall of songs When the singer sings them. Still they are carolled and said - On wings they are carried - After the singer is dead And the maker buried.
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Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn Disturbs the eternal sleep, But in the stillness far withdrawn Our dreamless rest for evermore we keep.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.
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There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science but it is all round about you, and for the trouble of looking, that you will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life.
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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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