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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
George William Curtis. (1824–1892)
 
 
1
    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!”
          Ebb and Flow.
2
    While we read history we make history.
          The Call of Freedom.
3
      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.
          The Call of Freedom.
 

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