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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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Must we to bed indeed? Well then, Let us arise and go like men, And face with an undaunted tread The long black passage up to bed.
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To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret element of gusto.
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If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he often laments his youth a deal more bitterly and with a more genuine intonation.
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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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Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body.
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After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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There is a certain frame of mind to which a cemetery is, if not an antidote, at least an alleviation. If you are in a fit of the blues, go nowhere else.
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It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!
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The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization.
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Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.
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I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.
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The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
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It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.
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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.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Hope looks for unqualified success but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.
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Everything is true only the opposite is true too you must believe both equally or be damned.
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I incline to Cain's heresy, he used to say quaintly: I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.
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