George William Curtis Quotes

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• Happiness lies, first of all, in health.

  George William Curtis

  Motivational, Fitness, Lying

  Lotus-Eating Ch. 4

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• It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

  George William Curtis

  Journey, Smooth Sailing, Achievement

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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.

  George William Curtis

  Loyalty, Country, Memorial Day

  George William Curtis (1894). “On the principles and character of American institutions, and the duties of American citizens, 1856-1891”

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• The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

  George William Curtis

  Motivational, Peace, Kindness

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• The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.

  George William Curtis

  New Year, Determination, Years

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• The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to develop as an equal human being.

  George William Curtis

  Dark, Light, Civilization

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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.

  George William Curtis

  Progress, Minorities, Steps

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• Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

  George William Curtis

  Book, Reading, Library

  George William Curtis (1894). “Orations and Addresses”

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• Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

  George William Curtis

  Birthday, Friends, Years

  George William Curtis (1856). “Prue and I”, p.111

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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!"

  George William Curtis

  Dream, Sea, Evening

  "Ebb and Flow". Poem by George William Curtis, www.bartleby.com. 1891.

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• Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!

  George William Curtis

  Dream, Business, Hard Times

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• The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is the recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind, is the demagogue's sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting national degeneracy and ruin.

  George William Curtis

  Book, Ignorance, Intelligent

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• Patriotism, or the peculiar relation of an individual to his country, is like the family instinct. In the child it is a blind devotion; in the man in intelligent love. The patriot perceives the claim made upon his country by the circumstances and time of her growth and power, and how God is to be served by using those opportunities of helping mankind. Therefore his country's honor is dear to him as his own, and he would as soon lie and steal himself as assist or excuse his country in a crime.

  George William Curtis

  Country, Children, Lying

  George William Curtis (1894). “On the principles and character of American institutions, and the duties of American citizens, 1856-1891”

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• The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.

  George William Curtis

  Civilization, Tests, Dark Ages

  George William Curtis (1894). “On the principles and character of American institutions, and the duties of American citizens, 1856-1891”

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• Happiness is speechless.

  George William Curtis

  Life, Speechless

  GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS (1856). “PRUE AND I.”, p.129

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• While we read history we make history.

  George William Curtis

  History

  George William Curtis (1894). “Orations and Addresses”

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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.

  George William Curtis

  Teenage, Mistake, Believe

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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.

  George William Curtis

  Memories, Romantic Love, Romance

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• Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.

  George William Curtis

  Hands, Cunning, Stratagem

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• A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.

  George William Curtis

  Rivers, Environmental, Knows

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• Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.

  George William Curtis

  Education, Intelligent, People

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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. In poetic minds and in popular enthusiasm this feeling becomes closely associated with the soil and the symbols of the country. But the secret sanctification of the soil and the symbol is the idea which they represent, and this idea the patriot worships through the name and the symbol, as a lover kisses with rapture the glove of his mistress and wears a lock of her hair upon his heart.

  George William Curtis

  Loyalty, Country, Heart

  George William Curtis (1894). “On the principles and character of American institutions, and the duties of American citizens, 1856-1891”

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• A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.

  George William Curtis

  Echoes, Journalism, Should

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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.

  George William Curtis

  Three, Conquer, Hundred

  "The Call of Freedom". "Orations and Addresses" by George William Curtis, www.bartleby.com. 1894.

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• Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.

  George William Curtis

  Inspirational, Life, Rich

  George William Curtis (1852). “Lotus-eating: a Summer Book”, p.191

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