Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISEvery 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.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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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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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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Virtue does not truly reward her votary if she leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would not have been better to serve vice.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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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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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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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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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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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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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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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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