To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWe 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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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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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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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