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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 The existence of a man is so small a thing to take, so mighty a thing to employ |
| The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outside conditions |
| The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys. |
| The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect. |
| The obscurest epoch is to-day. |
| The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty. |
| The saints are the sinners who keep on going |
| The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy. |
| The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man who has a few friends, or one who has a dozen (if there be any one so wealthy on this earth), cannot forget on how precarious a base his happiness reposes; and how by a stroke or two of fate /a death, a few light words, a piece of stamped paper, a woman's bright eyes /he may be left, in a month, destitute of all. |
| The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature. |
| The world has no room for cowards. |
| The world is so full of a number of things man sure should all be as happy as kings |
| The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings |
| There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. |
| There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect. |
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Proverb (1469545 st) Search
Categories (2627 st) Search
Authors (167535 st) Search
Photos (4592 st)
Born (10495 st)
Died (3318 st)
Dates (9517 st)
Countries (5315 st)
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Lengths
Toplists (6 st)
This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
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