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Robert Louis Stevenson111 quotes“Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.”
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis StevensonRobert Louis Stevenson The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
Robert Louis StevensonRobert Louis Stevenson That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
Robert Louis StevensonRobert Louis Stevenson To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Robert Louis StevensonRobert Louis Stevenson To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
Robert Louis StevensonRobert Louis Stevenson Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
Robert Louis StevensonRobert Louis Stevenson The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
Robert Louis StevensonRobert Louis Stevenson The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
Robert Louis StevensonRobert Louis Stevenson The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
Robert Louis StevensonRobert Louis Stevenson Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
Robert Louis StevensonRobert Louis Stevenson I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
Robert Louis StevensonRobert Louis Stevenson I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
Robert Louis StevensonRobert Louis Stevenson Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
Robert Louis StevensonRobert Louis Stevenson Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
Robert Louis StevensonRobert Louis Stevenson He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
Robert Louis StevensonRobert Louis Stevenson If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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Gerard GleesonGerard Gleeson Like deep water, she was silent. His lips tasted of salt. He was both addicting and bitter all at once.
MoomerMoomer Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone else heart.
Alexander KandovAlexander Kandov And I would lie on your chest for hours and dream about the world in your arms but your thoughts were in another world.
Ani ShahverdyanAni Shahverdyan Your smile and your laughter lit my whole world.
Ranata SuzukiRanata Suzuki Often all we can do is breathe, even that can be hard sometimes.
Julia Kellogg HenryJulia Kellogg Henry I am addicted to your madness drunk on your toxic love. Infect me with your poison, lets make storms rage above.
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Ida B. WellsIda B. Wells Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.
Watchman NeeWatchman Nee In order to retain our position as the dynamic duo of the world, it’s vital that in the UK and US we keep opportunities open for new people and new ideas. And we can never allow our economies to get furred up.
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