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.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISGood taste consists first upon fitness.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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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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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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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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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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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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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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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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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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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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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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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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