A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISReputation 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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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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While we read history we make history.
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A man’s country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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Progress begins with the minority. It is completed by persuading the majority, by showing the reason and the of the step forward, and that is accomplished by appealing to the intelligence of the majority.
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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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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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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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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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