The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISIt is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they’ve reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you’re just horny. It doesn’t mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.
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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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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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Happiness is speechless.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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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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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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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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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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