A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISLife is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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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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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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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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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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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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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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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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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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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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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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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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In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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While we read history we make history.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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