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Quote by Eliza Cook
Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castl

Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down? – Eliza Cook

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Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. – Herbert Hoover

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We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world. – A.E. Housman

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An idealist believes the short run doesnt count. A cynic believes the long run doesnt matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run. – Sydney J. Harris

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The actual well seen is ideal. – Thomas Carlyle

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