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Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.
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 the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel.
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His past was fairly blameless few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension yet he was humbled to the dust by the many ill things he had done, and raised up again into sober and fearful gratitude by the many he had come so near to doing, yet avoided.
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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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Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.
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I hate to write, but I love to have written.
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I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
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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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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.
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So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of generous acts.
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We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren the battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun.
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I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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I wish these flies would piss off.
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I believe in an ultimate decency of things.
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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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Fear is the strong passion it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.
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When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.
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