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 CURTISThe new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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While we read history we make history.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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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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True invective requires great imagination.
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Happiness is speechless.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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