There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONEach has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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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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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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