True invective requires great imagination.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISProgress 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.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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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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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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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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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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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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