Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISVirtue does not truly reward her votary if she leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would not have been better to serve vice.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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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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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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While we read history we make history.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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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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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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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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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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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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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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