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 CURTISStratagem is the right hand of cunning.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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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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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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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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Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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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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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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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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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.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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