There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONA friend is a gift you give yourself.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONOld and young, we are all on our last cruise.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONEveryone lives by selling something.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo forget oneself is to be happy.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONQuiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONEvery heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONKeep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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