Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISCriticism is not construction, it is observation.
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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Virtue does not truly reward her votary if she leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would not have been better to serve vice.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
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Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.
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