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There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome.
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
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Robert Luis Stivensoni
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Stivenson
Robert Loui Sitivensin
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Lui Stivenson
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Times are changed with him who marries there are no more by-path meadows, where you may innocently linger, but the road lies long and straight and dusty to the grave. Idleness, which is often becoming and even wise in the bachelor, begins to wear a different aspect when you have a wife to support.
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We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.
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We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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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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But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.
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Make up your mind to be happy.
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With the half of a broken hope for a pillow at night That somehow the right is the right And the smooth shall bloom from the rough: Lord, if that were enough?
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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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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.
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The spirit, Sir, is one of mockery.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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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 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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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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It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.
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The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.
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Love- what is love? A great and aching heart Wrung hands and silence and a long despair
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