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I know what happiness is, for I have done good work.
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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Happiness
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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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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.
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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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There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . . . it quiets a man down like saying his prayers.
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There are, indeed, few merrier spectacles than that of many windmills bickering together in a fresh breeze over a woody country their halting alacrity of movement, their pleasant business, making bread all day with uncouth gesticulation their air, gigantically human, as of a creature half alive, put a spirit of romance into the tamest landscape.
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I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
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Be what you are, and become what you are capable of becoming.
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To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.
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As if a man's soul were not too small to begin with, they have dwarfed an narrowed theirs by a life of all work and no play until here they are at forty, with a listless attention, a mind vacant of all material of amusement, and not one thought to rub against another, while they wait for the train.
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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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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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Make up your mind to be happy.
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It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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But of works of art little can be said.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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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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The spirit, Sir, is one of mockery.
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Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.
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This is still the strangest thing in all man's travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories.
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