Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISDreams come true if you survive the hard times!
More George William Curtis Quotes
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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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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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The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they’ve reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you’re just horny. It doesn’t mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.
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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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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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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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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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While we read history we make history.
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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 the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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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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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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