In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISPatriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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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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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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Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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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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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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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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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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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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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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