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Some people swallow the universe like a pill they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.
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
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Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Luis Stivensoni
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Stivenson
Robert Loui Sitivensin
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Lui Stivenson
RL Stivenson
RL Stevenson
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A knowledge that another has felt as we have felt, and seen things not much otherwise than we have seen them, will continue to the end to be one of life's choicest blessings.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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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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There comes an end to all things the most capacious measure is filled at last and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.
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To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.
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Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.
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A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so.
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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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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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Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.
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To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.
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It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
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Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.
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