George William Curtis
George William Curtis
George William Curtiswas 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 February 1824
CountryUnited States of America
fitness lying health
Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
dream sea evening
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!"
history
While we read history we make history.
country war white
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.
teenage mistake believe
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.
motivational peace kindness
The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
country strong believe
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.
heart men thinking
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
country children lying
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.
birthday years elderly
Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
ignorance tree lost
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.
dream business hard-times
Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
anger mind mistress
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.
half rewards vices
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.