Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONHe who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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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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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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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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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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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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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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