There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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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.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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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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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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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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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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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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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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