In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.
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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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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Happiness is speechless.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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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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