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 CURTISReputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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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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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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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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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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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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