A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
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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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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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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True invective requires great imagination.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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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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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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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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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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