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 CURTISA 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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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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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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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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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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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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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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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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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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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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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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