Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISImagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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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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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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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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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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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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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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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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While we read history we make history.
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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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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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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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Happiness is speechless.
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