31 ordspråk av George William Curtis

George William Curtis

George William Curtis föddes den 24 februar 1824 och dog den 31 august 1892 - amerikansk essayist.
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Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

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 test of civilization is its estimate of women.

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.

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.

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.

Loyalty

The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.

Nyttår

The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.

Imagination is as good as many voyages -- and how much cheaper.

O listen to the sounding sea
That beats on the remorseless shore,
O listen! for that sound will be
When our wild hearts shall beat no more.

A bird sang sweet and strong
In the top of the highest tree,
He said, "I pour out my heart in song
For the summer that soon shall be."

But deep in the shady wood,
Another bird sang, "I pour
My heart on the solemn solitude
For the springs that return no more."

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