True invective requires great imagination.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISIn 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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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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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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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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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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Happiness is speechless.
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While we read history we make history.
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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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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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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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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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