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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.
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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A great part of this life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.
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An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.
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