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 CURTISThe Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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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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A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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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 test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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Happiness is speechless.
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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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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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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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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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