Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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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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The world has no room for cowards.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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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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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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