It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISPatriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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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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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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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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True invective requires great imagination.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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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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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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While we read history we make history.
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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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