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.
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 world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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Happiness is speechless.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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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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Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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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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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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