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!”
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISThe Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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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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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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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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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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Happiness is speechless.
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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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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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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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