Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISRomance 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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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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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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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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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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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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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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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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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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