Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONFor my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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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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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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