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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Age: 44 †
Born: 1850
Born: November 13
Died: 1894
Died: December 3
Essayist
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Edinburgh
Scotland
Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Luis Stivensoni
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Stivenson
Robert Loui Sitivensin
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Lui Stivenson
RL Stivenson
RL Stevenson
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I believe in an ultimate decency of things.
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His past was fairly blameless few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension yet he was humbled to the dust by the many ill things he had done, and raised up again into sober and fearful gratitude by the many he had come so near to doing, yet avoided.
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When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.
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All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.
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To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.
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Loving God, help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds, and the worship of the wise men.
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To miss the joy is to miss everything.
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I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life.
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