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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.

George William Curtis

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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Dreams Myself Sea Walk Wave
A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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Echo Journal
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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Journey Maturity Season Summer
Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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Dreams Hard Time Inspirational True. Survive
Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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Condition National Patriot
True invective requires great imagination.
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Greatness Imagination True
While we read history we make history.
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History One Liner Reading
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
The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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Distance Pride Ratio
Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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Happiness Health One Liner
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
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
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
A man’s country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
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Country Loyalty Man Mountain Principle
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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Assurance Prosperity Skill
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.
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Better Doubt Reward Serve Virtue

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