In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISOur common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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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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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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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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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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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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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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Happiness is speechless.
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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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