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A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.

George William Curtis

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A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor.
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Head Ignorance Lost Monument Survive Tree
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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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.
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Journey Maturity Season Summer
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
The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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Beginning Promise Storm Vow White
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
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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Fame Intelligence Kind Man Reputation
A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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Echo Journal
It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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Family History Observation Time
Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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Conquer Greatness Intelligence People World
Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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Condition National Patriot
Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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Cheap Goodness Imagination
True invective requires great imagination.
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Greatness Imagination True
Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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Believe Book Entertainment Spiritual World
Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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Greatness Opportunity Politics Social
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
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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Better Doubt Reward Serve Virtue
The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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Civilization Estimate Test Woman
The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they’ve reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you’re just horny. It doesn’t mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.
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Feeling Growth Mistake Puberty Woman Yourself
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
Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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Age Feeling One Liner Youth
Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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Happiness Health One Liner
The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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Distance Pride Ratio

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