I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou 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?
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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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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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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