A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISA journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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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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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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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 new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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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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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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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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