I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The world has no room for cowards.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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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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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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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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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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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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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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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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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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