Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS
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
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS
Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS
Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS
Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS
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
A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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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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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS
Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS
Happiness is speechless.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS
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
Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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While we read history we make history.
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