Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONVanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in 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 travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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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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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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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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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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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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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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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 are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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