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" To sit still and contemplate, - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy, and yet content to remain where and what you are - is not this to know both... "
The Faith of Robert Louis Stevenson - Page 115
by John Kelman - 1903 - 301 pages
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Studies in English, Issues 4-5

American literature - 1924 - 348 pages
...-to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by tno great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy, and yet...to know both wisdom and virtue, and to dwell with happiness?33 Some men are mere machines. They are put in a go-cart of business, and are harnessed to...
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The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 33

William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1876 - 802 pages
...to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy, and yet content to remain where and what you arc — is not this to know both wisdom and virtue, and to dwell with happiness ? After all, it is...
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Selected Essays

Virginia Woolf - Literary Collections - 2008 - 288 pages
...to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy and yet content to remain where and what you are — * has the sort of insubstantiality which suggests that by the time he got to the end he had left...
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Works of Robert Louis Stephenson, Volume 6

Robert Louis Stevenson - Scottish literature - 1906 - 492 pages
...to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy, and yet...private chamber, who have the fun of the procession. And once you are at that, you are in the very humour of all social heresy. It is no time for shuffling,...
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My Little Book of Stevenson: Being an Introduction to Stevenson and a ...

Robert Louis Stevenson - 1924 - 148 pages
...to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy, and yet...both wisdom and virtue, and to dwell with happiness? —WALKING TOURS We require higher tasks because we do not recognize the height of those we have. Trying...
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Williams Literary Monthly, Volume 21

American literature - 1906 - 552 pages
...those in the shadows around us, and they and we "be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy, and yet content to remain where and what we are — to know both wisdom and virtue, and to dwell in happiness." John Adams Lowe. I T IS not...
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