Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISHappiness is speechless.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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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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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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A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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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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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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Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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While we read history we make history.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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