A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISHappiness lies, first of all, in health.
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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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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 lies, first of all, in health.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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While we read history we make history.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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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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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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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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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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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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