My Little Book of Stevenson: Being an Introduction to Stevenson and a Breviary of His Contribution to the Inspirational Literature of the WorldP.F. Volland, 1924 - 140 páginas |
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admiration AGE AND YOUTH AMATEUR EMIGRANT APOLOGY FOR IDLERS AUTUMN EFFECT beautiful begin brave CAMISARDS CHRISTMAS SERMON courage CRABBED AGE dead death delight DONKEY DORADO duty earth EL DORADO eyes face fact faith fall in love FAMILIAR STUDIES fancy fortune friends friendships give hand happy hear heart heaven HENRY DAVID THOREAU honest hope hour human influence INLAND VOYAGE keep LANTERN BEARERS LAY MORALS live look man's mankind marriage married MASTER OF BALLANTRAE MEMORIES AND PORTRAITS mind nature never NOTES ON EDINBURGH OLD MORTALITY ORDERED SOUTH ourselves PAN'S PIPES person pity pleasure PRINCE OTTO PROFESSION OF LETTERS REFLECTIONS AND REMARKS SILVERADO SQUATTERS soul speak spirit stars surely TALK AND TALKERS thought TRAVELS TRIPLEX true TRUTH OF INTERCOURSE VIRGINIBUS PUERISQUE virtues WALKING TOURS WALT WHITMAN WEIR OF HERMISTON wife women words young
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Página 17 - ... be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation — above all, on the same grim condition, to keep friends with himself — here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.
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Página 36 - Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield.
Página 18 - There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy, we sow anonymous benefits upon the world, which remain unknown even to ourselves, or when they are disclosed, surprise nobody so much as the benefactor.
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