159 ordspråk av Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
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.
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To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden
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To make our idea of morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow-men a secret element of gusto.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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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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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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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, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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