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 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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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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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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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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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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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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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 test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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While we read history we make history.
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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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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A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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