Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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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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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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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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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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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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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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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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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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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 no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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