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If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.
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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It was Silver's voice, and before I had heard a dozen words, I would not have shown myself for all the world. I lay there, trembling and listening, in the extreme of fear and curiostiy, for, in those dozen words, I understood that the lives of all the honest men aboard depended on me alone.
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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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So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of generous acts.
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The obscurest epoch is to-day.
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This grove, that was now so peaceful, must then have rung with cries, I thought and even with the thought I could believe I heard it ringing still.
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.
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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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The outer world, from which we cower into our houses, seemed after all a gentle habitable place and night after night a man's bed, it seemed, was laid and waiting for him in the fields, where God keeps an open house.
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A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.
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Of what shall we be proud of if we are not proud of our friends?
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A birdie with a yellow bill Hoped upon the window sill, Cocked his shining eye and said: 'Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-'ead?
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They say cowardice is infectious but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener.
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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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If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he often laments his youth a deal more bitterly and with a more genuine intonation.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.
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The essence of love is kindness.
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Going for character: why not now, and where you stand?
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