The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISRomance 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.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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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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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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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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A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
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Happiness is speechless.
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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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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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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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