While we read history we make history.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISA river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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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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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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Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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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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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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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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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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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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