Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISI 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!”
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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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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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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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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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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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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Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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