To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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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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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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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 is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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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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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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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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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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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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