To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Topic

Purpose of life Authenticity Personal growth

Author

Robert Louis Stevenson

Source

Familiar Studies of Men and Books

Genre

Travel writing

Language

English

Time

1882 1880s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Familiar Studies of Men and Books. London: Chatto & Windus, 1882.

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Another quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

We are all travellers in what John Bunyan calls the wilderness of this world....and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Topic
Friends Existential solitude Travel

Author

Robert Louis Stevenson
Source
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
Genre
Autobiography and memoir Travel writing
Language
English
Time
1879 1870s 19th century
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Original Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1879.

Current Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes. Dover Publications, 2019.

Another quote from the 1880s

Eternal peace is a dream, and not even a beautiful one, and war is a link in God's world order. In him, the noblest virtues of man, courage and renunciation, devotion to duty and willingness to sacrifice, unfold with the institution of life. Without the war, the world would become bogged down in materialism.

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

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Topic
Praise of war War

Author

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
Medium
Letter
Language
German
Time
1880 1880s 19th century
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Citation

Von Moltke, Helmuth. Letter to Johann Caspar Bluntschli. 11 Dec. 1880.

Another quote about Personal growth

There can be no progress (real, that is, moral) except in the individual and by the individual himself.

Charles Baudelaire

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Topic
Personal growth Nature of progress Progress

Author

Charles Baudelaire
Language
French
Time
1867 1860s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Baudelaire, Charles. Mon Coeur mis a nu [My Naked Heart]. Paris, 1887, no. 15.

Current Citation

Baudelaire, Charles. "My Heart Laid Bare." Late Fragments: Flares, My Heart Laid Bare, Prose Poems, Belgium Disrobed, translated by Richard Sieburth. Yale University Press, 2022, no. 15.