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• Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
• Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper.
• While we read history we make history.
• Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
• The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book…
• I think that to have known one good, old man-one man, who, through the chances and mischances of a long life, has…
• Patriotism, or the peculiar relation of an individual to his country, is like the family instinct. In the child it is a…
• Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
• There is very little moral mixture in the 'Antislavery' feeling of this country. A great deal is abstract philanthropy; part is hatred…
• Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
• Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
• Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence…

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