Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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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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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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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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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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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Happiness is speechless.
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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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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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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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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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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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