The obscurest epoch is today.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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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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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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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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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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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 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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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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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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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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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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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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