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Youth is wholly experimental.
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 Luis Stivensoni
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Stivenson
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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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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In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer to forget oneself is to be happy.
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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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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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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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Make up your mind to be happy.
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Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.
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To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.
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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.
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Jew storekeepers have already learned the advantage to be gained from this [unlimited credit]: they lead on the farmer into irretrievable indebtedness, and keep him ever after as their bondslave hopelessly grinding in the mill.
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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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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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The seeming significance of nature's appearances, their unchanging strangeness to the senses, and the thrilling response which they awaken in the mind of man . . . If we could only write near enough to the facts, and yet with no pedestrian calm, but ardently, we might transfer the glamour of reality direct upon our pages.
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Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body.
Robert Louis Stevenson
