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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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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For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!
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Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.
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The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain common work as it comes certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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Some people swallow the universe like a pill they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.
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It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.
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Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.
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To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.
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