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.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISOur common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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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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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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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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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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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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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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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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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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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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