The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISA 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.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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While we read history we make history.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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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!”
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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.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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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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True invective requires great imagination.
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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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.
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