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 CURTISIt is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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Happiness is speechless.
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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.
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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.
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
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In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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While we read history we make history.
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