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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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
Shih-ti-wen-sheng
Stivenson
Robert Loui Sitivensin
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Lui Stivenson
RL Stivenson
RL Stevenson
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This grove, that was now so peaceful, must then have rung with cries, I thought and even with the thought I could believe I heard it ringing still.
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It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity.
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With the half of a broken hope for a pillow at night That somehow the right is the right And the smooth shall bloom from the rough: Lord, if that were enough?
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Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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Nobody speaks of a beautifful view for 5 minutes
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And this shall be for music when no one else is near, The fine song for singing, the rare song to hear! That only I remember, that only you admire, Of the broad road that stretches and the roadside fire.
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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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In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel.
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Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.
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The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.
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Be what you are, and become what you are capable of becoming.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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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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The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die.
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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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Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.
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It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!
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You're either my ship's cook-and then you were treated handsome-or Cap'n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang!
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