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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWhen 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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONFor my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONOur business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAll speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONPerpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONBy being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAn elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe obscurest epoch is today.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONVanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo forget oneself is to be happy.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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