Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISOur common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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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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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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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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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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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 fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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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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While we read history we make history.
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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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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.
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