Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes About Labour
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Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
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The true success is to labour.
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When we have discovered a continent, or crossed a chain of mountains, it is only to find another ocean or another plain upon the further side. . . . O toiling hands of mortals! O wearied feet, travelling ye know not whither! Soon, soon, it seems to you, you must come forth on some conspicuous hilltop, and but a little way further, against the setting sun, descry the spires of El Dorado. Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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