All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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