"His past was fairly blameless; few men could……" — Robert Louis Stevenson
"His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to the dust by the many ill things he had done, and raised up again into sober and fearful gratitude by the many he had come so near to doing, yet avoided."
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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364 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
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A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.
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I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.
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Saints are sinners who kept on going.
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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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Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom…
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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What is offered to man's apprehension in any specific revelation of Christ is the living God himself.
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I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and…
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Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is…
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My apprehension comes in crowds, I dread the rustling of the grass, The very shadows of the clouds, Have power…
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Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.
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Things of which there is sight, hearing, apprehension, these I prefer.
— Heraclitus
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When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the…
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