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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.

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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Hero History Ourselves Poet Truth
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
Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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Hands Right Strategy
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
Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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Cheap Goodness Imagination
The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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Fragrance Hands Rose Stay
It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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Family History Observation Time
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 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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Head Ignorance Lost Monument Survive Tree
Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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Book Burn Lamp Wisdom
The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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Civilization Estimate Test Woman
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 Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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Distance Pride Ratio
Happiness is speechless.
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Happiness Talk
True invective requires great imagination.
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Greatness Imagination True
The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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