Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
About George William Curtis
George William Curtiswas an American writer, reformer, public speaker, and political activist. He was an abolitionist and supporter of civil rights for African Americans and Native Americans.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
American writer (1824-1892)
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.
American writer (1824-1892)
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.
American writer (1824-1892)
Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
American writer (1824-1892)
While we read history we make history.
American writer (1824-1892)
Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper!
American writer (1824-1892)
Happiness lies first of all in health.
American writer (1824-1892)
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
American writer (1824-1892)
Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
American writer (1824-1892)
The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
American writer (1824-1892)
Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.
American writer (1824-1892)
The test of civilization is its estimate of women.
American writer (1824-1892)
Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
American writer (1824-1892)
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.
American writer (1824-1892)
It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
American writer (1824-1892)
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.
American writer (1824-1892)
The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
American writer (1824-1892)