Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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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True invective requires great imagination.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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While we read history we make history.
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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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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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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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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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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