Today is a birthday remembrance for Robert Louis Stevenson. We are celebrating with his love quotes, while Google honors him with a Google Doodle. “The Scottish author of Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde was born on November 13, 1850 in Edinburgh.
Throughout his short life (he died suddenly at the age of 44, likely of a brain aneurysm) Stevenson traveled around the world and wrote numerous adventure tales. Google Doodle: Happy Birthday Robert Louis Stevenson – TIME
Throughout his short life (he died suddenly at the age of 44, likely of a brain aneurysm) Stevenson traveled around the world and wrote numerous adventure tales. Google Doodle: Happy Birthday Robert Louis Stevenson – TIME
Here are some of the quotes of love and wisdom by Robert Louis Stevenson:
- That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
- Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
- A friend is a gift you give yourself.
- I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
- Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
- Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
- Robert Louis Stevenson Quotesand Sayings
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