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Things looked at patiently from one side after another generally end by showing a side that is beautiful.
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
RL Stevenson
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For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!
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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.
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A proposition of geometry does not compete with life and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a work of art. Both are reasonable, both untrue to the crude fact both inhere in nature, neither represents it.
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No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature.
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I am painfully situated, Utterson my position is a very strange - a very strange one. It is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy.
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When I was a boy, I was a bit puzzled, and hardly knew weather it was myself or the world that was curious and worth looking into. Now I know that it is myself, and stick to that.
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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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You have no idea, unless you have tried it, how endlessly long is a summer's day, that you measure out only by hunger, and bring to an end only when you are drowsy.
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To cast in it with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations.
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Fear is the strong passion it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.
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Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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