While we read history we make history.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISDreams come true if you survive the hard times!
More George William Curtis Quotes
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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 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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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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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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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 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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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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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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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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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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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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