Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISPatriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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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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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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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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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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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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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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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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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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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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Happiness is speechless.
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