When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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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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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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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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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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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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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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