A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISPrussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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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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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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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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Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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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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In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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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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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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