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!”
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISPrussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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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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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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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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Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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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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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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