Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISBooks of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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While we read history we make history.
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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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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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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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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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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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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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Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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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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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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