While we read history we make history.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISTrue invective requires great imagination.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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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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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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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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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 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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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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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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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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