Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISBooks of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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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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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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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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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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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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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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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 the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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