It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISA 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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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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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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Happiness is speechless.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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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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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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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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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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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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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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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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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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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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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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