It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISWhile we read history we make history.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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True invective requires great imagination.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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Happiness is speechless.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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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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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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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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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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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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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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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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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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While we read history we make history.
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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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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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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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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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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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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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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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