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.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISOur common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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A 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.
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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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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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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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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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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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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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