Adam Lindsay Gordon Quotes

Adam Lindsay Gordon was an Australian poet, jockey, police officer and politician.

✵ 19. October 1833 – 24. June 1870

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Sea Spray and Smoke Drift
Sea Spray and Smoke Drift
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Adam Lindsay Gordon Quotes

“Life is mostly froth and bubble;
Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.”

Many quoters, including Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919), have "in our own" instead of "in your own".
Source: "Finis Exoptatus (A metaphysical Song)" (24 November 1866), Fytte 8 of Ye Wearie Wayfarer: Hys Ballad in Eight Fyttes, as published in Sea Spray and Smoke Drift http://books.google.com/books?id=xZUuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA47 (1867).

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