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 CURTISStratagem is the right hand of cunning.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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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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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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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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Happiness is speechless.
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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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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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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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A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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