The obscurest epoch is today.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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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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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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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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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.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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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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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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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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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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