A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISAnger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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While we read history we make history.
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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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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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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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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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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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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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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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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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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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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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