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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.

George William Curtis

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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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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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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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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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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 world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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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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