Virtue does not truly reward her votary if she leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would not have been better to serve vice.
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Anand Thakur
Virtue does not truly reward her votary if she leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would not have been better to serve vice.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISA journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISImagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISReputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
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 CURTISOur common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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 CURTISAge is a matter of feeling, not of years.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISThe fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISDreams come true if you survive the hard times!
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISIt is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISThe test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISAnger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISThe Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISProgress 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 CURTIS