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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.

George William Curtis

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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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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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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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Happiness is speechless.
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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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While we read history we make history.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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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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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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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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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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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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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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