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 CURTISWhile we read history we make history.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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While we read history we make history.
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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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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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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 test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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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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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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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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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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