A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
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A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISOur common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISIn the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISPatriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISLife is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISEvery 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.
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!”
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISHeroes 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.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISThe fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISGood taste consists first upon fitness.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISBooks of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISA journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISA 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.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISWhile we read history we make history.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISRomance 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 CURTISAge is a matter of feeling, not of years.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS