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And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought.
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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Live life to the fullest.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as simple and specious as a statue to the first glance, and yet on examination, as lively and interesting as a forest in detail.
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Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness.
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To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.
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Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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I am painfully situated, Utterson my position is a very strange - a very strange one. It is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking.
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Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.
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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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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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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and touched a virginity of sense.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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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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Sing a song of seasons something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall.
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I know what happiness is, for I have done good work.
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There is no foreign land it is the traveller only that is foreign.
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But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.
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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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