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Go on and improve in everything worthy.

John Quincy Adams

Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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Failure Inspirational
Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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Improvement Worthy
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
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Courage Difficult Inspirational Magic Perseverance
It was the special purpose of Christ’s appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.
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Appearance Light Mortal Purpose
We understand now, we’ve been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were.
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Philosophy Understand
Virtue is not always amiable.
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One Liner Virtue
America, goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.
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Destroy Freedom Herself Independence Search
Gratitude, warm, sincere, intense, when it takes possession of the bosom, fills the soul to overflowing and scarce leaves room for any other sentiment or thought.
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Gratitude Leaving Soul Thinking
Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.
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Character Hands Nation Oneself War
Tyranny can scarcely be practiced upon a virtuous and wise people.
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People Practice Virtue Wisdom
I read my eyes out and can’t read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.
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Eyes Myself Reading See
I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
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Myself Poet Warrior
Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
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Knowledge Liberty People
Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.
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Promise Slave
Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.
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Justice Man War
I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.
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Heaven Herself Myself Success Wrong

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