The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISImagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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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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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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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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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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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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Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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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 the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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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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