Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Consider the following quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson:

"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy."

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

"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?"

"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive."

"Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary."

"The cruelest lies are often told in silence."

"Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things."

"It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire."

"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others."

"If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong."

"A friend is a gift you give yourself."

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