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Family History Quotation of the Day: Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson, via Wikipedia.com.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), via Wikipedia.com. (Click to enlarge.)

 

We are all nobly born;

fortunate those who know it;

blessed those who remember.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson is now best known for four of his novels: Treasure Island (1883), Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1885), Kidnapped (1886), and The Black Arrow (1888). He also was an essayist, travel writer, musician and composer.

Stevenson was also a poet. His poem ‘Requiem’ is inscribed, as he wished, on his tomb in Samoa, where he spent the latter part of his life and died. He now rests on Mount Vaea, a spot overlooking the ocean, and this epigraph has become a song of grief in Samoan:

Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.

Notes, Sources, and References: 

1) Robert Louis Stevenson, on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Louis_Stevenson

 

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Family History Quote of the Day by Cicero

The Young Cicero Reading by Vincenzo Foppa (fresco, 1464)
“The Young Cicero Reading,” by Vincenzo Foppa (fresco, 1464), now at the Wallace Collection; via Wikimedia, Public Domain.

“To be ignorant of what occurred

before you were born is to remain perpetually a child.

For what is the worth of a human life

unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors

by the records of history?”

-Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 BC

 

 

Notes, Sources, and References: 

1) Cicero was a Roman philosopher, politician, and orator.

2) Image as cited above via Wikipedia.org- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicero#/media/File:The_Young_Cicero_Reading.jpg

 

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Family History Quotation of the Day by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., circa 1894.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., circa 1894. Public domain, Library of Congress via WikiQuote.org

“I believe the greatest thing in this world

is not so much where we stand

as in what direction we are moving…

 

and the further backward you can look,

the farther forward you can see.”

                                                     -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

 

 

Notes, Sources, and References: 

1) Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., image- http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Oliver_Wendell_Holmes,_Sr.#/media/File:Oliver_Wendell_Holmes_Sr_circa_1894.jpg

2) A physician as well as a writer and poet, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., (1809-1894) was also the father of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., who became a US Supreme Court Justice. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Wendell_Holmes,_Sr.

3) Quote first seen in “Discovering Historic Iowa Transportation Milestones”  http://www.iowadot.gov/histbook.pdf

 

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