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Pieces of eight, pieces of eight, pieces of eight!
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What hangs people…is the unfortunate circumstance of guilt.
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Age may have one side, but assuredly Youth has the other. There is nothing more certain than that both are right, except perhaps that both are wrong. Let them agree to differ; for who knows but what agreeing to differ may not be a form of agreement rather than a form of difference?
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Certain dank gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwreck.
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It is a sore thing to have laboured along and scaled the arduous hilltops, and when all is done, find humanity indifferent to your achievement.
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Let first the onion flourish there,
Rose among roots, the maiden-fair,
Wine-scented and poetic soul
Of the capacious salad bowl.
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To make our idea of morality centre 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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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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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal. In all our veins there runs some…old, wild, tree-top blood; our civilized nerves still tingle with his rude terrors and pleasures; and to that which would have moved our common ancestor, all must obediently thrill.
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O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.
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The untented Kosmos my abode,
I pass, a wilful stranger:
My mistress still the open road
And the bright eyes of danger.
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A child should always say what's true
And speak when he is spoken to,
And behave mannerly at table;
At least as far as he is able.
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Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.
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There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.
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And what would it be to grow old? For, after a certain distance, every step we take in life we find the ice growing thinner below our feet, and all around us and behind us we see our contemporaries going through.
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There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign, and now and again, by a flash of recollection, lights up the contrasts of the ear.
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This grove, that was now so peaceful, must then have rung with cries, I thought; and even with the thought I could believe I heard it ringing still.
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Hope is the boy, a blind, headlong, pleasant fellow, good to chase swallows with the salt; Faith is the grave, experienced, yet smiling man.
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To be honest, to be kind — to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends, but these without capitulation — above all, on the same grim condition, to keep friends with himself — here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy. He has an ambitious soul who would ask more; he has a hopeful spirit who should look in such an enterprise to be successful. There is indeed one element in human destiny that not blindness itself can controvert: whatever else we are intended to do, we are not intended to succeed; failure is the fate allotted.
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There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.
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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.
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But all that I could think of, in the darkness and the cold,
Was that I was leaving home and my folks were growing old.
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,
And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head;
And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed.
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If a man love the labor of any trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
Ignazio Silone
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Born:
November 13, 1850
Died:
December 3, 1894
(aged 44)
Bio:
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was 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.
Known for:
Treasure Island (1883)
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
Kidnapped (1886)
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)
The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses (1888)
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