A 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.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISHeroes 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.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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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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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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While we read history we make history.
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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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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.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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