Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISRomance 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.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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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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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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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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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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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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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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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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Happiness is speechless.
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