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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!”

George William Curtis

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Fragrance Hands Rose Stay
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.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Feeling Growth Mistake Puberty Woman Yourself
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.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Head Ignorance Lost Monument Survive Tree
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.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Better Doubt Reward Serve Virtue
Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Conquer Greatness Intelligence People World
For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Man Nature Win Woman
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.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Hero History Ourselves Poet Truth
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 CURTIS

Conversation Escape Ghost Memories Romance Time Touch
In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Journey Maturity Season Summer
Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Age Feeling One Liner Youth
Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Condition National Patriot
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.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Conquer Death Greatness History Human
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.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Country Loyalty Man Mountain Principle
While we read history we make history.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

History One Liner Reading
Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Anand Thakur
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.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Beginning Intelligence Majority Minority Progress