There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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My love was warm; for that I crossedThe mountains and the sea,
Nor counted that endeavour lost
That gave my love to me.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson
If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Christmas at Sea The sheets were frozen hard, and they cut the naked hand The decks were like a slide, where a seaman scarce could stand, The wind was a nor'-wester, blowing squally off the sea And the cliffs and spouting breakers were the only thing a-
Robert Louis Stevenson
The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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