Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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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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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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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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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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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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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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