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Journalist, Schriftsteller, veröffentlichte 1883 den Roman "Die Schatzinsel", der zu einem Klassiker der Jugendliteratur wurde (Schottland, 1850 - 1894).
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson wäre heute 173 Jahre, 5 Monate, 22 Tage oder 63.361 Tage alt.
Geboren am 13.11.1850 in Edinburgh
Gestorben am 03.12.1894 in Westsamoa
Sternzeichen: ♏ Skorpion
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Weitere 148 Zitate von Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
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A birdie with a yellow bill Hopped upon the window-sill, Cocked his shining eye and said: 'Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-head?'
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A child should always say what's true, And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table: At least as far as he is able.
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A faddling hedonist.
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A friend is a present you give yourself.
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A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation.
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A great part of this life consists of contemplating what we cannot cure.
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A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.
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A little amateur painting in water-colour shows the innocent and quiet mind.
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A mortified appetite is never a wise companion.
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All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth; and none, or almost none, for the disenchantments of age.
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Am I no a bonny fighter?
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding.
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Be it granted to me to behold you again in dying, Hills of home! and to hear again the call; Hear about the graves of the martyrs the peewees crying, And hear no more at all.
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Benjamin Franklin went through life an altered man because he once paid too dearly for a penny whistle. My concern springs usually from a deeper source, to wit, from having bought a whistle when I did not want one.
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Between the possibility of being hanged in all innocence, and the certainty of a public and merited disgrace, no gentleman of spirit could long hesitate.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for living.
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But all that I could think of, in the darkness and the cold, Was that I was leaving home and my folks were growing old.
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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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Even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognised by the police.
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Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.