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George William Curtis Biography

George William Curtis (February 24, 1824 – August 31, 1892) was an American writer and public speaker, born in Providence, Rhode Island, of New Englander ancestry. A Republican, he spoke in favor of African American equality and civil rights.

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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.

Criticism, Construction, Observation

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, Bidden, Mind, Mistress, Punishes, Reason

Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!

Business, Come, Dream, Dreams, Hard Times, Survive

Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.

Conditions, Memorial, Memorial Day, Patriotism, Permanence, Vital

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Age, Birthday, Elderly, Friends, Matter, Years

In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.

Autumn, Maturity, Rome, Spring, Summer

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.

Ignorance, Lost, Recover, Survive, Tree

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.

Blind, Children, Country, Like, Lying, Man

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

Chances, Faith, Heart, Long, Peace

Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.

Cunning, Hand, Hands, Right, Stratagem

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

Believe, Book, Entertainment, Spiritual, World

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.

Conversation, Like, Memories, Romance, Romantic Love

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.

Antislavery, Country, Done, Feeling, War, White

Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.

Education, Intelligent, People, World, Alphabet, Conquering

A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.

Environmental, Friends, Know, Knows, Love, Rivers

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

Winning, Men, Nature, Woman, Won

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

Achievement, Journey, Sailing, Ship, Smooth Sailing, Voyage

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

Alone, Made, Prosperous, Strong, World

A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.

Echo, Echoes, Journal, Journalism, Pander, Should

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.

Book, Education, Ignorance, Intelligent, Recorded

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