True invective requires great imagination.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISThe test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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While we read history we make history.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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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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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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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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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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Virtue does not truly reward her votary if she leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would not have been better to serve vice.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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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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Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
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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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