Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISIt is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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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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Happiness is speechless.
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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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While we read history we make history.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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Progress begins with the minority. It is completed by persuading the majority, by showing the reason and the of the step forward, and that is accomplished by appealing to the intelligence of the majority.
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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.
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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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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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