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
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echoes journalism should
A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
civilization women
The test of civilization is its estimate of women.
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.
education intelligent people
Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
book lamps burning
Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
opportunity political social
Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
christmas sunshine june
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.
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.
criticism construction observation
Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
hands cunning stratagem
Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
anger men indulge-in
Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
hero simple sound
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.
progress minorities steps
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.