30 ordspråk av George William Curtis
George William Curtis
George William Curtis föddes den February 24th 1824 och dog den 31 August 1892
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 A bird sang sweet and strongIn 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." |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Age is a matter of feeling, not of years. |
| Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom. |
| 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. |
| Happiness lies, first of all, in health. |
| He is so old that his blood type was discontinued. |
| 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! |
| Imagination is as good as many voyages -- and how much cheaper. |
| It is not observed in history that families improve with time. |
| It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage. |
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