Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISThe Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Happiness is speechless.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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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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Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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While we read history we make history.
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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.
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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 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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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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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor.
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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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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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