| The obscurest epoch is today. |
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- Robert Louis Stevenson |
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| It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. |
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- Robert Louis Stevenson |
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| We look for some reward of our endeavours and are disappointed; not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. |
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- Robert Louis Stevenson |
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| To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive. |
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- Robert Louis Stevenson |
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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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- Robert Louis Stevenson |
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| That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had. |
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- Robert Louis Stevenson |
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| Wine is bottled poetry. |
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- Robert Louis Stevenson |
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| An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate. |
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- Robert Louis Stevenson |
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| Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health. |
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- Robert Louis Stevenson |
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| Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. |
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- Robert Louis Stevenson |
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| In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be the gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy. |
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- Robert Louis Stevenson |
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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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- Robert Louis Stevenson |
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| Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. |
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- Robert Louis Stevenson |
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| A great part of life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure. |
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- Robert Louis Stevenson |
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| There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. |
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- Robert Louis Stevenson |
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| The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life. |
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- Robert Louis Stevenson |
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| Saints are sinners who kept on going. |
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- Robert Louis Stevenson |
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| Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords. |
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- Robert Louis Stevenson |
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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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- Robert Louis Stevenson |
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| Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was. |
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- Robert Louis Stevenson |
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