Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISOur common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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A man’s country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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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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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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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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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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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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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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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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Happiness is speechless.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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