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An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.
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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No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature.
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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.
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After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.
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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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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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But of works of art little can be said.
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As if a man's soul were not too small to begin with, they have dwarfed an narrowed theirs by a life of all work and no play until here they are at forty, with a listless attention, a mind vacant of all material of amusement, and not one thought to rub against another, while they wait for the train.
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We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a legend.
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Jekyll had more than a father's interest Hyde had more than a son's indifference.
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We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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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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Being happy enables you to be free from domination by the outside world.
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Youth now flees on feathered foot.
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I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens.
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