To persevere in one’s duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny.
GEORGE WASHINGTONWorry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
More George Washington Quotes
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No punishment, in my opinion, is to great, for the man who can build his greatness upon his country’s ruin.
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Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone.
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To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
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A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation.
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Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
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Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.
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Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.
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Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.
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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
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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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If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity.
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Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do – then do it with all your strength.
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
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