I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONPerpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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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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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 are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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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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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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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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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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