The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISThe new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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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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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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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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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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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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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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