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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!"

George William Curtis

While we read history we make history.

George William Curtis

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.

George William Curtis

There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else.

Cyrus Curtis

Age ... is a matter of feeling, not of years.

George William Curtis

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

George William Curtis

My breasts are beautiful, and I gotta tell you, they've gotten a lot of attention for what is relatively short screen time.

Jamie Lee Curtis

While we read history we make history.

George William Curtis

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.

George William Curtis

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

George William Curtis

There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else.

Cyrus H. Curtis

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.

George William Curtis

Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body—the assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know.

Donald Curtis

Never again will I make the simple into the complex. Something of true value does not become more valuable because it becomes complicated. Experience and conditions come and go; complications arise and fall away, but the simple action of God is eternal in the universe. thanks to Mary Larson -Donald Curtis.

Donald Curtis

The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to develop as an equal human being.

George William Curtis

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