Robert Louis Stevenson on Life
1850–1894 Scotland
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Familiar Studies of Men and Books (1882)
All who have meant good work with their whole hearts, have done good work, although they may die before they have the time to sign it. Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
Aes Triplex (1878)
Away with funeral music—set
The pipe to powerful lips—
The cup of life's for him that drinks
And not for him that sips.
At Boulogne (1872)
Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.
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