Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISProgress 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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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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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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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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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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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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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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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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Happiness is speechless.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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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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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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