It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI 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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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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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.
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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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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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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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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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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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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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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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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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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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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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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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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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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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