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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.

George William Curtis

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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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Happiness is speechless.
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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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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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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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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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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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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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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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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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While we read history we make history.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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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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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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