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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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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 Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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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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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
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Friendship Love River
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
Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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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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Country Loyalty Man Mountain Principle
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 world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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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

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