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In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer to forget oneself is to be happy.
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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It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to reawaken in us the sharp edge of sense and that impression of mystic strangeness which otherwise passes out of life with the coming of years but the sight of a loved face is what renews a man's character from the fountain upwards.
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The child that is not clean and neat, With lots of toys and things to eat, He is a naughty child, I'm sure-- Or else his dear Papa is poor.
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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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Everything is true only the opposite is true too you must believe both equally or be damned.
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Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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If he be Mr. Hyde he had thought, I shall be Mr. Seek.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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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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A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.
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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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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
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