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World Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
- To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.
- Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and…
- My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so.
- Money alone is only a mean; it presupposes a man to use it. The rich man can go where he pleases, but perhaps please himself…
- Dogs live with man as courtiers 'round a monarch, steeped in the flattery of his notice ... to push their favor in this world of…
- Being happy enables you to be free from domination by the outside world.
- This profusion of eccentricities, this dream in masonry and living rock is not a drop scene in a theatre, but a city in the world…
- Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.
- Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body.
- For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences…
- Lastly no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. It is not for nothing that this "ignoble tobagie" as Michelet…
- The world was made before English language, and seemingly upon a different design.
- Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
- We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
- There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
- The world has no room for cowards.
- The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
- To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul…
- To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
- It is the history of our kindnesses that alone make this world tolerable. If it were not for that, for the effect of kind words,…
- There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among…
- It was Silver's voice, and before I had heard a dozen words, I would not have shown myself for all the world. I lay there,…
- The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love…
- If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!
- It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that he is charmed by the…
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