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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.

John Quincy Adams

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 furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is, the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

Existence Greatness Knowledge Life
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
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
You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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Alone Company Poet Yourself
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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Difficult Inspirational Patience Perseverance
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
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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Goodness Preservation Yourself
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
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.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

Charity Compassionate Human Man
Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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Improvement Worthy
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
Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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Appearance Defeat
Move or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies.
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Body Death Language Ourselves
Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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Beginning End Politics Slave
Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.
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Promise Slave

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