True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation.
GEORGE WASHINGTONWe should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
More George Washington Quotes
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If the cause is advanced, indifferent is it to me where or in what quarter it happens.
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Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
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Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.
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Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
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I’ll die on my feet before I’ll live on my knees!
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I had hoped that liberal and enlightened thought would have reconciled the Christians so that their religious fights would not endanger the peace of Society.
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Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?
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Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
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Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.
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Experience has taught us, that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures best calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power.
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Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections.
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A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
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Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.
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Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.
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Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice.
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