... 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. The Atlantic Monthly - Page 7641923Full view - About this book
| 1912 - 772 pages
...of nature, the common experience of all search for truth, and we would not have it otherwise. "For to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor." LIGHT THROWN BY THE EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF HEREDITY UPON THE FACTORS AND METHODS OF EVOLUTION1 DR. CB... | |
| 1912 - 772 pages
...of nature, the common experience of all search for truth, and we would not have it otherwise. "For to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor." LIGHT THEOWN BY THE EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF HEREDITY UPON THE FACTORS AND METHODS OF EVOLUTION1 DR. CB... | |
| John Michels - 1925 - 954 pages
...Pasteur is credited with the well-known passage from the close of Robert Louis Stevenson's El Dorado: "To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor." FRED NEWTON SCOTT DEPARTMENT OF RHETORIC UNIVERSITY or MICHIGAN SCIENTIFIC BOOKS A. Bibliography of... | |
| 1910 - 904 pages
...Far from it. New respons'bilities rose each day; but, as Stevenson has said so well : "To travel well is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor." "It is not meant," wrote one of God's noblest noblemen, "that the enjoyments of life should be few... | |
| Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1920 - 1134 pages
...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 labor." This philosophy of happiness, which differs from mere facile optimism, is his most original and inspiring... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1890 - 300 pages
...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. THE ENGLISH ADMIRALS " Whether it be wise in men to do such actions or no, I am sure it is... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1893 - 250 pages
...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 labor. THE ENGLISH ADMIRALS " Whether it be wise in men to do such actions or no, I am sure it is so in States... | |
| Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1895 - 292 pages
...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 labor."—RL STEVENSON. " EUCALYPTUS lies on the eastern slope of the Rockies. It will be fourteen... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1914 - 236 pages
...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. A MAN who must separate himself from ^*• his neighbours' habits in order to be happy, is... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 238 pages
...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. A MAN who must separate himself from •'""*• his neighbours' habits in order to be happy,... | |
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