Author Topic: ~ Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes ~ (Read 3090 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #30 on:** August 27, 2015, 01:05:50 PM »

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive and the true success is to labour.

MysteRy · « **Reply #31 on:** August 27, 2015, 01:06:16 PM »

By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.

MysteRy · « **Reply #32 on:** August 27, 2015, 01:06:45 PM »

I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

MysteRy · « **Reply #33 on:** August 27, 2015, 01:07:11 PM »

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose and the eyes will take care of themselves.

MysteRy · « **Reply #34 on:** August 27, 2015, 01:07:39 PM »

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily one thing leading to another in an endless series.

MysteRy · « **Reply #35 on:** August 27, 2015, 01:08:30 PM »

For my part I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

MysteRy · « **Reply #36 on:** August 27, 2015, 01:08:59 PM »

If a man loves the labour of his trade apart from any question of success or fame the gods have called him.

MysteRy · « **Reply #37 on:** August 27, 2015, 01:09:27 PM »

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that in the dinner the sweets come last.

MysteRy · « **Reply #38 on:** August 27, 2015, 01:09:52 PM »

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

MysteRy · « **Reply #39 on:** August 27, 2015, 01:10:23 PM »

Ah sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth; and none or almost none for the disenchantments of age.

MysteRy · « **Reply #40 on:** August 27, 2015, 01:11:00 PM »

It is very nice to think The world is full of meat and drink With little children saying grace In every Christian kind of place.

MysteRy · « **Reply #41 on:** August 27, 2015, 01:11:29 PM »

You cannot run away from a weakness. You must sometimes fight it out or perish; and if that be so why not now and where you stand?

MysteRy · « **Reply #42 on:** August 27, 2015, 01:11:55 PM »

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying 'Amen' to what the world tells you you ought to prefer is to keep your soul alive.

MysteRy · « **Reply #43 on:** August 27, 2015, 01:12:21 PM »

A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.

MysteRy · « **Reply #44 on:** August 27, 2015, 01:12:47 PM »

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you that you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive.

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