While we read history we make history.
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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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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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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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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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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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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Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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