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.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISEvery 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.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Happiness is speechless.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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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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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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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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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they’ve reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you’re just horny. It doesn’t mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.
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A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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