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 CURTISTrue invective requires great imagination.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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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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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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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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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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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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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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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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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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