The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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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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 Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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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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I walked beside the evening sea And dreamed a dream that could not be; The waves that plunged along the shore Said only: “Dreamer, dream no more!”
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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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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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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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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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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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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