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 CURTISBooks are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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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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Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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While we read history we make history.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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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 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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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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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 river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
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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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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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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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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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