Stevenson

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(1087 votes)  Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(892 votes)  So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indespensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

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(888 votes)  A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

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(868 votes)  On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(804 votes)  When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

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(752 votes)  Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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(711 votes)  Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

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(454 votes)  Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(382 votes)  Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.

Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

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(361 votes)  Wine is bottled poetry.

Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

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(357 votes)  You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.

Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

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(347 votes)  There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

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(338 votes)  What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(335 votes)  I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(324 votes)  The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams.

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(318 votes)  Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(316 votes)  Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

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(311 votes)  What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility... a patriotism which is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(307 votes)  It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(305 votes)  Flattery is all right if you don't inhale.

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(301 votes)  In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(300 votes)  Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(300 votes)  The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(297 votes)  An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(297 votes)  You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

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(296 votes)  Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(296 votes)  A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(295 votes)  It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(288 votes)  I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

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(288 votes)  We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(286 votes)  Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

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(286 votes)  We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

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(286 votes)  A hungry man is not a free man.

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(284 votes)  All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(283 votes)  Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

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(283 votes)  The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

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(282 votes)  Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(279 votes)  So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indespensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

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(278 votes)  The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(275 votes)  It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

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(274 votes)  Laws are never as effective as habits.

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(272 votes)  Everyone lives by selling something.

Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

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(270 votes)  I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

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(268 votes)  Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield.

Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

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(261 votes)  Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

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(256 votes)  Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

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(254 votes)  A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

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(254 votes)  To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

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(253 votes)  If a man loves the labor of his trade apart from any question of success or fame, the Gods have called him.

Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

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(251 votes)  When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

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