Starry sky Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

““Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will.””

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You must suffer me to go my own dark way.

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“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we find is an honest friend. He is a fortunate…

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The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

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The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more…

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“For thirty years," he said, "I've sailed the seas and seen good and bad, better and worse, fair weather and foul, provisions running out,…

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“Mutiny, it was plain, hung over us like a thunder-cloud.”

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Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak.

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You have no idea, unless you have tried it, how endlessly long is a summer's day, that you measure out only by hunger, and…

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Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.

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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

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The mind should turn into a serene and stormless lake, where is reflected the complete panorama of the starry sky.

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Of old sat Freedom on the heights The thunders breaking at her feet: Above her shook the starry lights; She heard the torrents meet.

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