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 CURTISA journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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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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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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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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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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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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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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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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