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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

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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Hero History Ourselves Poet Truth
A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
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Friendship Love River
Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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Common Liberty Sorrow
Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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Age Feeling One Liner Youth
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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Beginning Intelligence Majority Minority Progress
The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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Anand Thakur
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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Conquer Death Greatness History Human
Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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Conquer Greatness Intelligence People World
Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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Greatness Opportunity Politics Social
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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Conversation Escape Ghost Memories Romance Time Touch
Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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Condition National Patriot
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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Fame Intelligence Kind Man Reputation
Happiness is speechless.
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Happiness Talk
Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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Anand Thakur
The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they’ve reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you’re just horny. It doesn’t mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.
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Feeling Growth Mistake Puberty Woman Yourself
The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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Civilization Estimate Test Woman