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  • Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.

    George William Curtis (1852). “Lotus-eating: a Summer Book”, p.191
  • Good taste consists first upon fitness.

  • 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.

  • Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!

  • Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.

  • Happiness lies, first of all, in health.

    Lotus-Eating Ch. 4
  • 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.

    "The Call of Freedom". "Orations and Addresses" by George William Curtis, www.bartleby.com. 1894.
  • 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.

  • Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

    George William Curtis (1894). “Orations and Addresses”
  • The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.

    George William Curtis (1858). “Prue and I.”, p.187
  • 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.

  • 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!"

    "Ebb and Flow". Poem by George William Curtis, www.bartleby.com. 1891.
  • Criticism is not construction, it is observation.

    George William Curtis (1858). “The Potiphar Papers”, p.13
  • The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.

  • 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.

    George William Curtis (1894). “On the principles and character of American institutions, and the duties of American citizens, 1856-1891”
  • Through all history, from the beginning, a noble army of martyrs have fought fiercely and fallen bravely for that unseen mistress, their country. So, through all history, to the end, as long as men believe in God that army must still march and fall, recruited only from the flower of mankind, cheered only by their own hope of humanity, strong only in the confidence of their cause.

    George William Curtis (1894). “Orations and Addresses of George William Curtis: On the principles and character of American institutions, and the duties of American citizens, 1856-1891”
  • Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

  • The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.

    George William Curtis (1856). “Works: Potiphar papers”, p.211
  • Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

    George William Curtis (1856). “Prue and I”, p.111
  • The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

  • 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.

    Theodore Winthrop, George William Curtis (1861). “Cecil Dreeme”, p.12
  • In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.

    Summer   Spring   Autumn  
    George William Curtis (1856). “Works: Lotus-eating”, p.185
  • While we read history we make history.

    George William Curtis (1894). “Orations and Addresses”
  • Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.

  • Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.

  • A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.

  • For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.

    "Prue & I".
  • Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.

    George William Curtis (1856). “Works: Lotus-eating”, p.141
  • Happiness is speechless.

    GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS (1856). “PRUE AND I.”, p.129
  • It is not observed in history that families improve with time.

    George William Curtis (1856). “Prue and I.”, p.187
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