Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISHeroes 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.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
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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!”
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Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
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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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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.
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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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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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Happiness is speechless.
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The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they’ve reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you’re just horny. It doesn’t mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.
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