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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Age: 44 †
Born: 1850
Born: November 13
Died: 1894
Died: December 3
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Songwriter
Writer
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
RLS
Endless
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Joy
Happiness
Ascending
Another
Happily
Live
Scale
Thing
Leading
Life
Scales
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An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.
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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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Give us courage and gaiety and the quient mind . . .
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I believe in an ultimate decency of things.
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We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march.
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Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.
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The San Francisco Stock Exchange was the place that continuously pumped up the savings of the lower classes into the pockets of the millionaires.
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For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!
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The true success is to labour.
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The obscurest epoch is to-day.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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I love this quote uttered by the character Widget in The Night Circus. He credits it to Herr Thiessen but knows it is a literary quote by the another author. Wine is bottled poetry
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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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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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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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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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Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.
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