Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISBooks are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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Happiness is speechless.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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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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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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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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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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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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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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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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