To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAll speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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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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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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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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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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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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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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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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I 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.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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