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Thought For the Day: Everybody, Soon Or Late, Sits Down To A Banquet of Consequences

Posted on November 13, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.” -Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, essayist, and poet (13 Nov 1850-1894)

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Thought For the Day: The Cruelest Lies Are Often Told In Silence

Posted on November 13, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“The cruelest lies are often told in silence.” – Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, essayist, and poet (1850-1894)

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Thought For the Day: It Is Perhaps A More Fortunate Destiny To Have A Taste For Collecting Shells Than To Be Born A Millionaire

Posted on November 14, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.” -Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, essayist, and poet (13 Nov 1850-1894)

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Thought For the Day: You Can Give Without Loving, But, You Can Never Love Without Giving

Posted on December 20, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.” – Robert Louis Stevenson      

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Thought For the Day: Just A Day By the Seeds You Plant and Not By the Reaped Harvest

Posted on September 11, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson    

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Thought For the Day: If Dogs Do Not Go To Heaven, Then When I Die I Want To Go Where They Went

Posted on July 7, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”  – Will Rogers      

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Thought For the Day: A Friend Is A Gift You Give Yourself

Posted on December 7, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“A friend is a gift you give yourself.”  – Robert Louis Stevenson      

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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Stevenson – Samuel Pepys

Posted on February 23, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

In 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson published a memorable essay on the life of Samuel Pepys.  Pepys was an administrator of England’s navy and Parliamentarian who was also famous for keeping a remarkable diary for a decade while relatively young.  He … Continue reading →

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