Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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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True invective requires great imagination.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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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 common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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A man’s country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
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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 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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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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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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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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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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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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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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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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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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While we read history we make history.
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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