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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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The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die.
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The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
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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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Hope looks for unqualified success but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.
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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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The sticks break, the stones crumble, The eternal altars tilt and tumble, Sanctions and tales dislimn like mist About the amazed evangelist. He stands unshook from age to youth Upon one pin-point of the truth.
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I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.
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Fear is the strong passion it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.
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So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of generous acts.
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse.
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I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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Times are changed with him who marries there are no more by-path meadows, where you may innocently linger, but the road lies long and straight and dusty to the grave. Idleness, which is often becoming and even wise in the bachelor, begins to wear a different aspect when you have a wife to support.
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Saints are sinners who kept on going.
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Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.
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We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do!
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When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.
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