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.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISDreams come true if you survive the hard times!
More George William Curtis Quotes
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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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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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While we read history we make history.
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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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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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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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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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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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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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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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