A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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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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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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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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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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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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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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While we read history we make history.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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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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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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