I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONOur business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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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.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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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.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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