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The true success is to labour.
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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Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them, Fair the fall of songs When the singer sings them. Still they are carolled and said - On wings they are carried - After the singer is dead And the maker buried.
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I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.
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I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best nothing is so interesting as weeding. I went crazy over the outdoor work, and at last had to confine myself to the house, or literature must have gone by the board.
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It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse.
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Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness.
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We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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Be what you are, and become what you are capable of becoming.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.
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I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on man’s shoulders and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure.
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The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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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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The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
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These are my politics: to change what we can to better what we can but still to bear in mind that man is but a devil weakly fettered by some generous beliefs and impositions and for no word however sounding, and no cause however just and pious, to relax the stricture on these bonds.
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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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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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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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