For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONOur business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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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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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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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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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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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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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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