Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISHappiness lies, first of all, in health.
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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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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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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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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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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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While we read history we make history.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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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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Happiness is speechless.
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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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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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