There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAn elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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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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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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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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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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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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