Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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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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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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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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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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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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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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