Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Louis Balfour Stevensonwas a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and A Child's Garden of Verses...
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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else
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Let first the onion flourish there, Rose among the roots, the maiden-fair Wine scented and poetic soul of the capacious salad bowl.
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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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If a man loves the labor of his trade apart from any question of success or fame, the Gods have called him.
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A friend is a present you give to yourself.
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To make our idea of 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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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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We are all travelers in the wilderness of the World, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend
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Trusty, dusky, vivid, true, With eyes of gold and bramble-dew, Steel-true and blade-straight, The great artificer made my mate.
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We're getting hit with more larcenies and home invasions and we have to get more people on the road to stop it, ... We have to adjust the shortages created by the budget cuts and hiring freeze.
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There is no duty we so much underrated as the duty of being happy.
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The existence of a man is so small a thing to take, so mighty a thing to employ