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This is still the strangest thing in all man's travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories.
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
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It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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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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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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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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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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The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
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I believe in an ultimate decency of things.
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Friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway. The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy.
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The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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It was for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills. Sir, if that was my master, why had he a mask upon his face?
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Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.
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We do not go to cowards for tender dealing there is nothing so cruel as panic the man who has least fear for his own carcase, has most time to consider others.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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