 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1890 - 300 pages
...begin* and not of how we end, of what we want and not of what we have. An aspiration is a joy for ever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune...activity. To have many of these is to be spiritually rich. Life is only a very dull and ill-directed theatre unless we have some interests in the piece ; and... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1893 - 250 pages
...hapav is a question of how we begin and not of how we end, of what we want and not of what we have. An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid...activity. To have many of these is to be spiritually rich. Life is only a very dull and ill-directed theatre unless we have some interests in the piece; and to... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 388 pages
...begin and not of how we end, of what we want and not of what we have. An aspiration is a joy for ever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune...activity. To have many of these is to be spiritually rich. Life is only a very dull and illdirected theatre unless we have some interests in the piece ; and to... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley - 1895 - 380 pages
...begin and not of how we end, of what we want and not of what we have. An aspiration is a joy for ever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune...activity. To have many of these is to be spiritually rich. Life is only a very dull and ill106 directed theatre unless we have some interests in the piece ; and... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 380 pages
...begin and not of how we end, of what we want and not of what we have. An aspiration is a joy for ever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune...activity. To have many of these is to be spiritually rich. Life is only a very dull and illdirected theatre unless we have some interests in the piece; | and... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1914 - 236 pages
...human life is presented to you naked and verging to Its lowest terms. AN aspiration is a joy for ever, a possession **• as solid as a landed estate, a...activity. To have many of these is to be spiritually rich. 'T*O be wholly devoted to some intellectual *• exercise is to have succeeded in life ; and perhaps... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Quotations, Scottish - 1895 - 238 pages
...human life is presented to you naked and verging to its lowest terms. AX aspiration is a joy for ever, a possession **• as solid as a landed estate, a...activity. To have many of these is to be spiritually rich. *T'O be wholly devoted to some intellectual •*• exercise is to have succeeded in life ; and perhaps... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Scottish essays - 1896 - 248 pages
...happy is a question of bow we begin and not of how we end, of what we want and not of what we have. An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid...activity. To have many of these is to be spiritually rich. Life is only a very dull and ill-directed theatre unless we have some interests in the piece; and to... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - American essays - 1900 - 466 pages
...happy is a question of how we begin and not of how we end, of what we want and not of what we have. An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid...activity. To have many of these is to be spiritually rich. Life is only a very dull and ill-directed theatre unless we have some interests in the piece; and to... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1901 - 252 pages
...happy is a question of how we begin and not of how we end, of what we want and not of what we have. An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid...activity. To have many of these is to be spiritually rich. Life is only a very dull and ill-directed theatre unless we have some interests in the piece; and to... | |
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An aspiration is a joy forever,^ a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity. To have many of these is to be spiritually rich. 
