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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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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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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While we read history we make history.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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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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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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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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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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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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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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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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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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