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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.

George William Curtis

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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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Dreams Myself Sea Walk Wave
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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Assurance Prosperity Skill
A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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Echo Journal
Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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Age Feeling One Liner Youth
It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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Family History Observation Time
Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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Book Burn Lamp Wisdom
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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Conversation Escape Ghost Memories Romance Time Touch
True invective requires great imagination.
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Greatness Imagination True
Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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Believe Book Entertainment Spiritual World
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
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
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
Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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Hands Right Strategy
Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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Anand Thakur
Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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Common Liberty Sorrow
Happiness is speechless.
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Happiness Talk
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
The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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Beginning Promise Storm Vow White
The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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Fragrance Hands Rose Stay
Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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Greatness Opportunity Politics Social
Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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Happiness Health One Liner
The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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Civilization Estimate Test Woman
Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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Cheap Goodness Imagination
Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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Angry Luxury Man Money
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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Fame Intelligence Kind Man Reputation
For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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Man Nature Win Woman
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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Conquer Death Greatness History Human

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