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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.

George William Curtis

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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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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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While we read history we make history.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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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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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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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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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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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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Happiness is speechless.
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