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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.
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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Everything is true only the opposite is true too you must believe both equally or be damned.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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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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To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.
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Going for character: why not now, and where you stand?
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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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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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Being happy enables you to be free from domination by the outside world.
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The outer world, from which we cower into our houses, seemed after all a gentle habitable place and night after night a man's bed, it seemed, was laid and waiting for him in the fields, where God keeps an open house.
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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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my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head, Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.
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All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.
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My tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky It's time to take the window to see Leerie going by For every night at tea-time and before you take your seat, With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street.
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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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Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.
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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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It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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