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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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Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Luis Stivensoni
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Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
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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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It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.
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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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A little amateur painting in water colors shows the innocent and the quiet mind.
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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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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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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Friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway. The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy.
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There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome.
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This profusion of eccentricities, this dream in masonry and living rock is not a drop scene in a theatre, but a city in the world of reality.
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...those little people, my brownies, who do one half of my work for me while I am fast asleep, and in all human likelihood do the rest for me as well, when I am wide awake and fondly suppose I do for myself.
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