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!”
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISOur great social and political advantage is opportunity.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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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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The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they’ve reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you’re just horny. It doesn’t mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.
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Happiness is speechless.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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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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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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While we read history we make history.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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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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