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.
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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True invective requires great imagination.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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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 world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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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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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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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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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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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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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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