More from Robert Louis Stevenson
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Familiar Studies of Men and Books (1882).Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
“Yoshida-Torajiro”, Familiar Studies of Men and Books, p. 175 (1902).
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context
Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).
