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If you would grow great and stately, You must try to walk sedately.

If you would grow great and stately, You must try to walk sedately.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Children, Trying, Walks
1885 A Child's Garden of Verses, no.27,'Good and Bad Children', stanza1.

Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Children, Men, Play
Robert Louis Stevenson (2011). “The Complete Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Nineteen Other Tales”, p.6, Modern Library

How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do! Up in the air and over the wall, Till I can see so wide, River and trees and cattle and all Over the countryside. Till I look down on the garden green, Down on the roof so brown- Up in the air I go flying again, Up in the air and down!

Robert Louis Stevenson
Summer, Children, Wall
A Child's Garden of Verses "The Swing" l. 1 (1885)

Children are certainly too good to be true.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Baby, Children, Too Good To Be True
Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “The Collected Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.200, Jazzybee Verlag

Every child can remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Children, Army, Forests
Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley (1925). “The works of Robert Louis Stevenson”

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Life, Children, Men
Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.4721, e-artnow

To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Children, Balance, Age
Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson (1915). “"Virginibus puerisque," and othe other papers. Memories and portraits. Familiar studies of men and books”

Flower god, god of the spring, beautiful, bountiful, Cold-dyed shield in the sky, lover of versicles, Here I wander in April Cold, grey-headed; and still to my Heart, Spring comes with a bound, Spring the deliverer, Spring, song-leader in woods, chorally resonant; Spring, flower-planter in meadows, Child-conductor in willowy Fields deep dotted with bloom, daisies and crocuses: Here that child from his heart drinks of eternity: O child, happy are children!

Robert Louis Stevenson
Beautiful, Song, Children
Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “New Poems and Variant Readings”, p.87, Read Books Ltd

Cruel children, crying babies, All grow up as geese and gabies, Hated, as their age increases, By their nephews and their nieces.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Baby, Children, Growing Up
Robert Louis Stevenson (2005). “A Child's Garden of Verses (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.18, Sparklesoup LLC

Away down the river, A hundred miles or more, Other little children Shall bring my boats ashore.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Children, Rivers, Littles
Robert Louis Stevenson (2005). “A Child's Garden of Verses (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.13, Sparklesoup LLC

How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do!

Robert Louis Stevenson
Children, Thinking, Air
A Child's Garden of Verses "The Swing" l. 1 (1885)

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.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Children, Tables, Speak
A Child's Garden of Verses "Whole Duty of Children" l. 1 (1885)

The ideal story is that of two people who go into love step for step, with a fluttered consciousness, like a pair of children venturing together into a dark room.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Children, Dark, Two
Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.4560, e-artnow

The child that is not clean and neat, With lots of toys and things to eat, He is a naughty child, I'm sure-- Or else his dear Papa is poor.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Children, Naughty, Papa
'A Child's Garden of Verses' (1885) 'System'

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