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To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.
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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Stivenson
Robert Loui Sitivensin
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Lui Stivenson
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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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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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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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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.
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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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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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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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The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner.
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Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
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