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Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.
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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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as simple and specious as a statue to the first glance, and yet on examination, as lively and interesting as a forest in detail.
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The saddest object in civilization, and to my mind the greatest confession of its failure, is the man who can work, who wants work, and who is not allowed to work.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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Some people swallow the universe like a pill they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.
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We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.
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I incline to Cain's heresy, he used to say quaintly: I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.
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This profusion of eccentricities, this dream in masonry and living rock is not a drop scene in a theatre, but a city in the world of reality.
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Little do ye know your own blessedness for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
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Cruel children, crying babies, All grow up as geese and gabies, Hated, as their age increases, By their nephews and their nieces.
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The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.
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Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.
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But of works of art little can be said.
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Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them.
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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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It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.
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Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.
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Jekyll had more than a father's interest Hyde had more than a son's indifference.
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Do not forget that even as to work is to worship so to be cheery is to worship also, and to be happy is the first step to being pious.
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You're either my ship's cook-and then you were treated handsome-or Cap'n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang!
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