I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONOne 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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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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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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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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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The obscurest epoch is today.
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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 habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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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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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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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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