I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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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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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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