The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISThe world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Progress begins with the minority. It is completed by persuading the majority, by showing the reason and the of the step forward, and that is accomplished by appealing to the intelligence of the majority.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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Virtue does not truly reward her votary if she leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would not have been better to serve vice.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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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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Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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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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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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Happiness is speechless.
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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 test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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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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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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