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.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISThe Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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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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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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While we read history we make history.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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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.
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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