Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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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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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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Happiness is speechless.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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Heroes in history seem to us poetic because they are there. But if we should tell the simple truth of some of our neighbors, it would sound like poetry.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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