The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISProgress 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.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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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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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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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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A man’s country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
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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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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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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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