We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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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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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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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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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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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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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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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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