It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWe all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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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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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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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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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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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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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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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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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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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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