In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISImagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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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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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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Happiness is speechless.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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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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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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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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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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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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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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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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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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