I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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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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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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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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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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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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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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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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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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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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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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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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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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