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When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.
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
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Robert Loui Sitivensin
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His past was fairly blameless few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension yet he was humbled to the dust by the many ill things he had done, and raised up again into sober and fearful gratitude by the many he had come so near to doing, yet avoided.
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With the half of a broken hope for a pillow at night That somehow the right is the right And the smooth shall bloom from the rough: Lord, if that were enough?
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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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Little do ye know your own blessedness for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
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Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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Make up your mind to be happy.
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