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When I was a boy, I was a bit puzzled, and hardly knew weather it was myself or the world that was curious and worth looking into. Now I know that it is myself, and stick to that.
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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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.
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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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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.
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Under the strain of this continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, ay, even beyond what I had thought possible to man, I became, in my own person, a creature eaten up and emptied by fever, languidly weak both in body and mind, and solely occupied by one thought: the horror of my other self.
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Of what shall we be proud of if we are not proud of our friends?
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If he be Mr. Hyde he had thought, I shall be Mr. Seek.
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It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.
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It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.
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