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Benjamin Franklin went through life an altered man because he once paid too dearly for a penny whistle. My concern springs usually from a deeper source, to wit, from having bought a whistle when I did not want one.
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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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say give them up, for they may be all you have but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.
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An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils.
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When I was a boy, I was a bit puzzled, and hardly knew weather it was myself or the world that was curious and worth looking into. Now I know that it is myself, and stick to that.
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The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization.
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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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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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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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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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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 travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
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Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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Nobody speaks of a beautifful view for 5 minutes
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This grove, that was now so peaceful, must then have rung with cries, I thought and even with the thought I could believe I heard it ringing still.
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It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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You cannot run away from weakness you must some time fight it out or perish and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do!
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