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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

• Of all my verse, like not a single line; But like my title, for it is not mine. That title from a better man I stole; Ah, how much better, had I stol'n the whole!

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• Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

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• One morning, very early, before the sun was up, / I rose and found the shining dew on every buttercup.

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• Our affections and beliefs are wiser than we; the best that is in us is better than we can understand; for it is grounded beyond experience, and guides us, blindfold but safe, from one age on to another.

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• Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

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• Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

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• Sing me a song of a lad that is gone, Say, could that lad be I? Merry of soul he sailed on a day Over the sea to Skye.

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• Sit loosely in the saddle.

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• Sympathy is a thing to be encouraged apart from humane considerations, because it supplies us with the materials for wisdom.

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• Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

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• The body is a house with many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

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• The bright face of danger.

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• The child that is not clean and neat, With lots of toys and things to eat, He is a naughty child, I'm sure- Or else his dear papa is poor.

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• The cruellest lies are often told in silence.

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• The devil, depend upon it, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

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• The gauger walked with willing foot, And aye the gauger played the flute; And what should Master Gauger play But 'Over the hills and far away'?

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• The greatest engineering is the engineering of men.

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• The harmless art of knucklebones has seen the fall of the Roman empire and the rise of the United States.

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• The Saints are the Sinners who keep on trying.

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• 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.

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