Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSBe a great speaker, become a leader.
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Virtue is not always amiable.
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Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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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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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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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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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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Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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Posterity – you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
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It is my wish to fill every moment of my time with some action of the mind which may contribute to the pleasure or the improvement of my fellow creatures.
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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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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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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak, and that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all His laws.
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
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