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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

George William Curtis

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Heroes in history seem to us poetic because they are there. But if we should tell the simple truth of some of our neighbors, it would sound like poetry.
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Hero History Ourselves Poet Truth
True invective requires great imagination.
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Greatness Imagination True
Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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Common Liberty Sorrow
The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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Civilization Estimate Test Woman
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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Assurance Prosperity Skill
Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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Dreams Hard Time Inspirational True. Survive
Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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Hands Right Strategy
Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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Happiness Health One Liner
Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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Cheap Goodness Imagination
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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Conversation Escape Ghost Memories Romance Time Touch
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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Country Loyalty Man Mountain Principle
Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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Condition National Patriot
Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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Age Feeling One Liner Youth
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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Conquer Death Greatness History Human
It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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Family History Observation Time
I walked beside the evening sea And dreamed a dream that could not be; The waves that plunged along the shore Said only: “Dreamer, dream no more!”
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Dreams Myself Sea Walk Wave

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