The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISReputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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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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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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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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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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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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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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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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