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.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISThe new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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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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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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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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Heroes in history seem to us poetic because they are there. But if we should tell the simple truth of some of our neighbors, it would sound like poetry.
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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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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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