The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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 great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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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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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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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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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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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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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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While we read history we make history.
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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