Happiness is speechless.
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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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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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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While we read history we make history.
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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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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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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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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