The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISHeroes 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.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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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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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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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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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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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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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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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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