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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.
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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In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer to forget oneself is to be happy.
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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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The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die.
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There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.
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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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Some places speak distinctly. Certain dark gardens cry aloud for a murder certain old houses demand to be haunted certain coasts are set apart for shipwreck.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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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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Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
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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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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Of what shall we be proud of if we are not proud of our friends?
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