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.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISDreams come true if you survive the hard times!
More George William Curtis Quotes
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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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A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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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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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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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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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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Happiness is speechless.
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