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.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISThe fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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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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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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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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Happiness is speechless.
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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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Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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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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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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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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While we read history we make history.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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