Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISPrussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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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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While we read history we make history.
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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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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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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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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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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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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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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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