The obscurest epoch is today.
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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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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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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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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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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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