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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A man who has been three years biting his nails on a desert island can't expect to appear as sane as you and me.
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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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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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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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By the time a man gets into the seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.
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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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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong
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To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness - these are the gifts which money cannot buy
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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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This school has been here since 1904, and has been using the same teaching methodology that they used in 1904, ... Here in 2005. I said that's just ridiculous. We need a change the paradigm, change the way we teach, break out of our comfort zone, and do something new.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor.
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He travels best that knows when to return. Middleton For my part, 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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He who knoweth the precepts by heart, but faileth to practice them, is like unto one who lighteth a lamp and then shutteth his eyes.
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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.