A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
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Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.
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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.
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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
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The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
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There is no education like adversity.
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I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
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The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
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Frank and explicit--that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
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Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
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The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
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The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
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The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
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The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.
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A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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A majority is always better than the best repartee.
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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
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A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.
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It is easier to be critical than correct.
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Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
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Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
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Success is the child of audacity.
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