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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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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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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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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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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Happiness is speechless.
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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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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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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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