4 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson about names


  • Author Robert Louis Stevenson
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    Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.

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  • Author Robert Louis Stevenson
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    The FlowersAll the names I know from nurse:Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse,Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock,And the Lady Hollyhock.Fairy places, fairy things,Fairy woods where the wild bee wings,Tiny trees for tiny dames-These must all be fairy names!Tiny woods below whose boughsShady fairies weave a house;Tiny tree-tops, rose or thyme,Where the braver fairies climb!Fair are grown-up people's trees,But the fairest woods are these;Where, if I were not so tall,I should live for good and all

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  • Author Robert Louis Stevenson
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    In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves.

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