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.
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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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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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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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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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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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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True invective requires great imagination.
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While we read history we make history.
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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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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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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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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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