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Useless quote for 26 November:

"It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit."

~ Robert Louis Stevenson, in "Forest Notes" (1875-1876)

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TheEdinburghBookshop 2d ago

"My dear, it is a magnificent moonlight night, with a wild, great west wind abroad, flapping above one like an immense banner..."

#Edinburgh 's own Robert Louis Stevenson, the November 25th entry in Liz Ison's A Literary Letter For Every Day of the Year, published by Batsford.

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WIST Quotations 6d ago

A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

Hope is the boy, a blind, headlong, 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 resolution. Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honourable defeat to be a form of victory. Hope is a kind old pagan; but Faith grew up in Christian days, and early learnt humility.
In the one temper, a man is indignant that he cannot spring up in a clap to heights of elegance and virtue; in the other, out of a sense of his infirmities, he is filled with confidence because a year has come and gone, and he has still preserved some rags of honour. In the first, he expects an angel for a wife; in the last, he knows that she is like himself — erring, thoughtless, and untrue; but like himself also, filled with a struggling radiancy of better things, and adorned with ineffective qualities.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1881), “Virginibus Puerisque, Part 2”

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Essay (1881), "Virginibus Puerisque, Part 2" - Stevenson, Robert Louis | WIST Quotations

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Assoc for Scottish Literature Nov 20

The lights from the parlour and kitchen shone out
Through the blinds and the windows and bars;
And high overhead and all moving about,
There were thousands of millions of stars…

—Robert Louis Stevenson, “Escape at Bedtime”
from A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES (1885)

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Assoc for Scottish Literature Nov 20

Whole Duty of Children
by Robert Louis Stevenson

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.

—from A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES (1885)

Today, 20 November, is World Children’s Day.

https://www.unicef.org/take-action/campaigns/world-childrens-day

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N-gated Hacker News Nov 20

🎩Literary Hub attempts to resuscitate Robert Louis Stevenson with a "critique" that's less about his life and more about selling hats. 🤦‍♂️Imagine thinking you can unlock the secrets to life and death through endless podcast prattle and style advice! 📚🔄
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Robert Louis Stevenson’s Art of Living (and Dying)

On summer break from his university studies, a young Robert Louis Stevenson worked late into the night. He apprenticed in his family’s lighthouse engineering business but had no interest in the tra…

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Hacker News Nov 20

Robert Louis Stevenson's Art of Living (and Dying)

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Robert Louis Stevenson’s Art of Living (and Dying)

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WIST Quotations Nov 15

A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with someone else.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1876-08), “Virginibus Puerisque, Part 1,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 34

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Essay (1876-08), "Virginibus Puerisque, Part 1," Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 34 - Stevenson, Robert Louis | WIST Quotations

You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with someone else. Collected in Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers, ch. 1, part 1 (1881).

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