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Aes Triplex (1878)
Variante: Even if the doctor does not give a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.

“There is a sort of dead-alive, hackneyed people about, who are scarcely conscious of living except in the exercise of some conventional occupation. … They have no curiosity; they cannot give themselves over to random provocations; they do not take pleasure in the exercise of their faculties for its own sake; and unless necessity lays about them with a stick, they will even stand still. It is no good speaking to such folk: they cannot be idle, their nature is not generous enough; and they pass those hours in a sort of coma, which are not dedicated to furious moiling in the gold-mill.”

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Robert Louis Stevenson

An Apology for Idlers.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)

“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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Robert Louis Stevenson buch Across the Plains

Quelle: Across the Plains (1892), Ch. XII, A Christmas Sermon.

“Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.”

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'La Fère of Cursed Memory', 15th vignette of An Inland Voyage (1878), in Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/8026833953, Stevenson, e-artnow (2015)

“You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with someone else.”

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Robert Louis Stevenson buch Virginibus Puerisque

Virginibus Puerisque, Ch. 1. http://books.google.com/books?id=Alw-AAAAYAAJ&q=%22You+could+read+Kant+by+yourself+if+you+wanted+but+you+must+share+a+joke+with+some+one%22+else&pg=PA17#v=onepage <br class="br">Cornhill Magazine, (August 1876) http://books.google.com/books?id=VoNHAAAAYAAJ&q=%22You+could+read+Kant+by+yourself+if+you+wanted+but+you+must+share+a+joke+with+some+one+else%22&pg=PA174#v=onepage <br class="br">Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)

“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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Robert Louis Stevenson buch Across the Plains

Quelle: Across the Plains (1892), Ch. XII, A Christmas Sermon.

“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”

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Familiar Studies of Men and Books http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext96/fsomb10.txt (1882).

“God, if this were enough,
That I see things bare to the buff.”

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Robert Louis Stevenson buch Songs of Travel and Other Verses

No. XXV, If This Were Faith.
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)