To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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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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Everyone lives by selling something.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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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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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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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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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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