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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.
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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The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain common work as it comes certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.
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Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.
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It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!
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Every child can remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life.
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I wish these flies would piss off.
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Some day...after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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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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In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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The spirit, Sir, is one of mockery.
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The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner.
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There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome.
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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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All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.
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The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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A knowledge that another has felt as we have felt, and seen things not much otherwise than we have seen them, will continue to the end to be one of life's choicest blessings.
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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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