It is not so much for its beauty that the forest m... -Robert Louis Stevenson

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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Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes to Explore

Nothing like a little judicious levity....
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life....
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive....
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move....
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend....
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move....
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves....
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well....
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect....

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Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot ...
The Beatles were from Liverpool. It's a hard town. The Stones weren't the hard men. They just dressed up. The Beatles were the hard men....
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good....
It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God ...
I've always believed that no officer's life, regardless of rank, is of such great value to his country that he should seek safety in the rear... Offic...
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent....
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not ...
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men....
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so....
Women may fall when there's no strength in men....