The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISTrue invective requires great imagination.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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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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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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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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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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In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.
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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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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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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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