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By Robert Louis Stevenson
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.
- Source
- Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (first edition), 1881 · "Æs Triplex", p. 182 (printed page number seen on the page image)
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- Internet Archive (scan of the first edition, London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881)
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From "Æs Triplex", an essay in Robert Louis Stevenson's Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881). The essayist speaks.