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

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  Strong, World, Made

  George William Curtis (1856). “Works: Potiphar papers”, p.211

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

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  Anger, Men, Indulge In

  GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS (1868). “PRUE AND I”, p.126

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• I think that to have known one good, old man-one man, who, through the chances and mischances of a long life, has carried his heart in his hand, like a palm-branch, waving all discords into peace-helps our faith in God, in ourselves, and in each other more than many sermons

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  Faith, Peace, Heart

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• True invective requires great imagination.

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  Imagination, Great Imagination

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• Criticism is not construction, it is observation.

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  Criticism, Construction, Observation

  George William Curtis (1858). “The Potiphar Papers”, p.13

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• The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.

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  Distance, Pride, Ratios

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

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• Good taste consists first upon fitness.

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  Taste, Firsts, Good Taste

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• It is not observed in history that families improve with time.

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

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• Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

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  Sorrow, Liberty, Common

  Concord (Mass.), Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Russell Lowell, George William Curtis, James Lyman Whitney (1876). “Proceedings at the Centennial Celebration of Concord Fight, April 19, 1875”

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• Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.

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  Spiritual, Believe, Book

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• 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.

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  Ignorance, Tree, Lost

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• 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.

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  Country, Strong, Believe

  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”

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• Patriotism, or the peculiar relation of an individual to his country, is like the family instinct. In the child it is a blind devotion; in the man in intelligent love. The patriot perceives the claim made upon his country by the circumstances and time of her growth and power, and how God is to be served by using those opportunities of helping mankind. Therefore his country's honor is dear to him as his own, and he would as soon lie and steal himself as assist or excuse his country in a crime.

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  Country, Children, Lying

  George William Curtis (1894). “On the principles and character of American institutions, and the duties of American citizens, 1856-1891”

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• Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.

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  Memorial Day, Memorial, Conditions

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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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  Half, Rewards, Vices

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• 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.

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  Anger, Mind, Mistress

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

  George William Curtis

  Creativity, Journey, Imagination

  George William Curtis (1856). “Prue and I.”, p.8

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

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  Appreciate, Noble, Deeds

  George William Curtis (1894). “From the Easy Chair”

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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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  Hero, Simple, Sound

  Theodore Winthrop, George William Curtis (1861). “Cecil Dreeme”, p.12

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• There is very little moral mixture in the 'Antislavery' feeling of this country. A great deal is abstract philanthropy; part is hatred of slaveholders; a great part is jealousy for white labor, very little is consciousness of wrong done and the wish to right it.

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  Country, War, White

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• It is the most human and kindly of seasons, as fully penetrated and irradiated with the feeling of human brotherhood, which is the essential spirit of Christianity, as the month of June with sunshine and the balmy breath of roses.

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  Christmas, Sunshine, June

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

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  Winning, Men

  "Prue & I".

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• Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.

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  Opportunity, Political, Social

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

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