The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISWhile we read history we make history.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.
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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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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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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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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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