A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISIt is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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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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True invective requires great imagination.
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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Happiness is speechless.
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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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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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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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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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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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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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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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While we read history we make history.
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