Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Balfour Stevensonwas a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and A Child's Garden of Verses...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth13 November 1850
giving grace mind
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.
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I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.
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Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.
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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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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.
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This profusion of eccentricities, this dream in masonry and living rock is not a drop scene in a theatre, but a city in the world of reality.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.
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The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin.
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.