159 ordspråk av Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson föddes den November 13th 1850 och dog den 3 December 1894 - of fiction and travel books.
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 For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfo |
| Give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself |
| Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. |
| He who knoweth the precepts by heart, but faileth to practice them, is like unto one who lighteth a lamp and then shutteth his eyes. |
| His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object. |
| 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. |
| I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgment. |
| I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something. |
| I hate cynicism a great deal worse than I do the devil; unless perhaps the two were the same thing |
| I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun. |
| I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first. |
| I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral. |
| I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion. |
| I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. |
| I've a grand memory for forgetting. |
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Proverb (1469545 st) Search
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Toplists (6 st)
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