Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISPatriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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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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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
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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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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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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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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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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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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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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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Happiness is speechless.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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