Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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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 big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they’ve reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you’re just horny. It doesn’t mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.
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Happiness is speechless.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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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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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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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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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 fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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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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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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