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Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.

John Quincy Adams

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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Difficult Inspirational Patience Perseverance
In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.
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Charity Compassionate Human Man
It was the special purpose of Christ’s appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.
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Appearance Light Mortal Purpose
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
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Desire Discover Early Heart Man Praise Recognition
To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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Believe Honesty Man Philosophy Worst
Be a great speaker, become a leader.
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Greatness Leadership
Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
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Democracy Foundation Human Right Theory
To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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Goodness Right Spiritual
From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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Experience Future Lesson Past
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
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
Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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Appearance Defeat
If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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Deep Value World
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
Virtue is not always amiable.
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One Liner Virtue
If the fundamental principles in the Declaration of Independence, as self-evident truths, are real truths, the existence of slavery, in any form, is a wrong.
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Existence Fundamental Independence Principle Slave Truth Wrong

Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.

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