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 CURTISIn the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.
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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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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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 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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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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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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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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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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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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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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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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