I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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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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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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