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.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISPatriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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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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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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While we read history we make history.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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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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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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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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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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