Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISOur common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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True invective requires great imagination.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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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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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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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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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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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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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 river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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