The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISAge is a matter of feeling, not of years.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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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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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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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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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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True invective requires great imagination.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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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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While we read history we make history.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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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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Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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Happiness is speechless.
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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