The obscurest epoch is today.
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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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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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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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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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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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We 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.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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