A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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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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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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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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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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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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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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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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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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