While we read history we make history.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISIn the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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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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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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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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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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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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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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