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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Age: 44 †
Born: 1850
Born: November 13
Died: 1894
Died: December 3
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Everything is true only the opposite is true too you must believe both equally or be damned.
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If this is death, it is easier than life.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.
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We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best nothing is so interesting as weeding. I went crazy over the outdoor work, and at last had to confine myself to the house, or literature must have gone by the board.
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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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In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.
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There are, indeed, few merrier spectacles than that of many windmills bickering together in a fresh breeze over a woody country their halting alacrity of movement, their pleasant business, making bread all day with uncouth gesticulation their air, gigantically human, as of a creature half alive, put a spirit of romance into the tamest landscape.
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A great part of this life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.
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Cruel children, crying babies, All grow up as geese and gabies, Hated, as their age increases, By their nephews and their nieces.
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In the other gardens And all up the vale, From the autumn bonfies See the smoke trail! Pleasant summer over And all the summer flowers, The red fire blazes, the grey smoke towers. Sing a song of seasons! Something bright in all, Flowers in the summer Fires in the fall!
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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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If you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife
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And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought.
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When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.
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Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.
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Do not forget that even as to work is to worship so to be cheery is to worship also, and to be happy is the first step to being pious.
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It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.
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