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 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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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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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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Everyone lives by selling something.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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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 one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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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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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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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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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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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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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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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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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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