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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 174 Jahre, 2 Monate, 29 Tage oder 63.643 Tage alt.

Geboren am 13.11.1850 in Edinburgh
Gestorben am 03.12.1894 in Westsamoa
Sternzeichen: ♏ Skorpion

• Every one lives by selling something.

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• Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality; and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identy.

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• Fifteen men on the dead man's chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest- Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!

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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.

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• Give to me the life I love, Let the lave go by me, Give the jolly heaven above And the byway nigh me. Bed in the bush with stars to see, Bread I dip in the river- There's the life for aman like me, There's the life for ever.

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• Go, little book, and wish to all Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall, A bin of wine, a spice of wit, A house with lawns enclosing it, A living river by the door, A nightingale in the sycamore!

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• He sows hurry and reaps indigestion.

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• He who has learned to love an art or science has wisely laid up riches against the day of riches.

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• He who was prepared to help the escaping murderer or to embrace the impenitent thief, found, to the overthrow of all his logic, that he objected to the use of dynamite.

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• Here lies one who meant well, tried a little, failed much:-surely that may be his epitaph, of which he need not be ashamed.

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• Hope is the boy, a blind, head-long pleasant fellow, good to chase swallows with the salt; Faith is the grave, experienced, yet smiling man. Hope lives on ignorance; open-eyed Faith is built upon a knowledge of our life, of the tyranny of circumstance and the frailty of human nature.

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• I believe in an ultimate decency of things.

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• I have thus played the sedulous ape to Hazlitt, to Lamb, to Wordsworth, to Sir Thomas Browne, to Defoe, to Hawthorne, to Montaigne, to Baudelaire and to Obermann.

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• I own I like definite form in what my eyes are to rest upon; and if landscapes were sold, like the sheets of characters of my boyhood, one penny plain and twopence coloured, I should go the length of twopence every day of my life.

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• I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

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• I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night. I will make a palace fit for you and me Of green days in forests and blue days at sea. I will make my kitchen, and you shall keep your room, Where white flows the river and bright blows the broom, And you shall wash your linen and keep your body white In rainfall at morning and dewfall at night.

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• I've a grand memory for forgetting, David.

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• If a man love the labor of any trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

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• If I have faltered more or less In my great task of happiness; If I have moved among my race And shown no glorious morning face; If beams from happy human eyes Have moved me not; if morning skies, Books, and my food, and summer rain Knocked on my sullen heart in vain:- Lord, thy most pointed pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake; Or, Lord, if too obdurate I, Choose thou, before that spirit die, A piercing pain, a killing sin, And to my dead heart run them in!

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• If thy morals make thee dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.

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