Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISCriticism is not construction, it is observation.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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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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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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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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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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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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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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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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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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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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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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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 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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True invective requires great imagination.
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