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!”
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISPatriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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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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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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A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
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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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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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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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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they’ve reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you’re just horny. It doesn’t mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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While we read history we make history.
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