Virtue is not always amiable.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSTo believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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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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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
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To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.
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Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.
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I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
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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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Move or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies.
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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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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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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
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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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