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We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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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A birdie with a yellow bill Hoped upon the window sill, Cocked his shining eye and said: 'Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-'ead?
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A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so.
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We do not go to cowards for tender dealing there is nothing so cruel as panic the man who has least fear for his own carcase, has most time to consider others.
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Let first the onion flourish there, Rose among roots, the maiden-fair, Wine-scented and poetic soul Of the capacious salad bowl.
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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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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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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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Going for character: why not now, and where you stand?
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The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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Fear is the strong passion it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.
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Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them.
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If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.
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Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.
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