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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.

George William Curtis

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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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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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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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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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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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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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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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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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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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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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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
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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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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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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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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Age Feeling One Liner Youth

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