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The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization.
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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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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A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so.
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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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All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.
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When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.
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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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It was Silver's voice, and before I had heard a dozen words, I would not have shown myself for all the world. I lay there, trembling and listening, in the extreme of fear and curiostiy, for, in those dozen words, I understood that the lives of all the honest men aboard depended on me alone.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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I hate to write, but I love to have written.
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