It is not observed in history that families improve with time. George William Curtis More Quotes by George William Curtis More Quotes From George William Curtis A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it. George William Curtis environmental knows rivers Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind. George William Curtis appreciate noble deeds Progress begins with the minority. It is completed by persuading the majority, by showing the reason and the of the step forward, and that is accomplished by appealing to the intelligence of the majority. George William Curtis progress minorities steps Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world. George William Curtis intelligent education people Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge. George William Curtis indulge-in anger men The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong. George William Curtis strong made world Stratagem is the right hand of cunning. George William Curtis stratagem cunning hands 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 George William Curtis faith heart peace 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. George William Curtis country lying children The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is the recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind, is the demagogue's sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting national degeneracy and ruin. George William Curtis intelligent ignorance book 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 strong believe country Dreams come true if you survive the hard times! George William Curtis hard-times business dream 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. George William Curtis white war country The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance. George William Curtis ratios distance pride Good taste consists first upon fitness. George William Curtis good-taste taste firsts 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. George William Curtis mistress anger mind 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. George William Curtis sunshine christmas june True invective requires great imagination. George William Curtis great-imagination imagination Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow. George William Curtis liberty sorrow common Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world. George William Curtis spiritual believe book
