To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWe are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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To 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.
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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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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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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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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The world has no room for cowards.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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