Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISVirtue does not truly reward her votary if she leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would not have been better to serve vice.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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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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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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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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Happiness is speechless.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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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 are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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While we read history we make history.
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