Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISBooks are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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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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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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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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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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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!”
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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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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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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Happiness is speechless.
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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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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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