Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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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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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Happiness is speechless.
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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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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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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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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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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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Progress begins with the minority. It is completed by persuading the majority, by showing the reason and the of the step forward, and that is accomplished by appealing to the intelligence of the majority.
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