The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISHappiness lies, first of all, in health.
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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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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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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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Happiness is speechless.
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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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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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