A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISWhile we read history we make history.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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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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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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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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While we read history we make history.
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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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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 Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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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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Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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Happiness is speechless.
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