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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety, and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavours. If it

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety, and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavours. If it may not, give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temparate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Wrath, Giving, Brave
Robert Louis Stevenson, Roger Robinson (2004). “Robert Louis Stevenson: His Best Pacific Writings”, p.113, Univ. of Queensland Press

It is better to be a fool than to be dead. It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind. For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

Robert Louis Stevenson
Men, People, Giving
Virginibus Puerisque "Crabbed Age and Youth" (1881)

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Giving, Grace, Mind
Robert Louis Stevenson, Roger Robinson (2004). “Robert Louis Stevenson: His Best Pacific Writings”, p.113, Univ. of Queensland Press

Give us courage and gaiety and the quient mind . . .

Robert Louis Stevenson
Giving, Mind, Persevere

And the true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss the joy is to miss all.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Voice, Giving, Joy
Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona”, p.249, e-artnow

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.

Robert Louis Stevenson
People, Giving, Vices
Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Across The Plains”, p.139, Sheba Blake Publishing

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