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To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.
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
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Stivenson
Robert Loui Sitivensin
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Lui Stivenson
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RL Stevenson
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To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.
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And the true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss the joy is to miss all.
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To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.
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After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.
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