It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISIt is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
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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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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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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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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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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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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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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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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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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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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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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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