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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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You have no idea, unless you have tried it, how endlessly long is a summer's day, that you measure out only by hunger, and bring to an end only when you are drowsy.
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These are my politics: to change what we can to better what we can but still to bear in mind that man is but a devil weakly fettered by some generous beliefs and impositions and for no word however sounding, and no cause however just and pious, to relax the stricture on these bonds.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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Under the strain of this continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, ay, even beyond what I had thought possible to man, I became, in my own person, a creature eaten up and emptied by fever, languidly weak both in body and mind, and solely occupied by one thought: the horror of my other self.
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And this shall be for music when no one else is near, The fine song for singing, the rare song to hear! That only I remember, that only you admire, Of the broad road that stretches and the roadside fire.
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It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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But of works of art little can be said.
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I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.
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It is almost as if the millennium were arrived, when we shall throw our clocks and watches over the housetop, and remember time and seasons no more. Not to keep hours for a lifetime is... to live forever.
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The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
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It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse.
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This profusion of eccentricities, this dream in masonry and living rock is not a drop scene in a theatre, but a city in the world of reality.
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To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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Sit loosely in the saddle.
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To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.
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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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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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