Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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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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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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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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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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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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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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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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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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