Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISA 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.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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While we read history we make history.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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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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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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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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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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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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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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