The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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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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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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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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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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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Happiness is speechless.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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While we read history we make history.
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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