For my part, 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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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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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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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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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 full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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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 have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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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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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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