Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgement to others with modesty.
GEORGE WASHINGTONDecision making, like coffee, needs a cooling process.
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Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.
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I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth.
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Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country.
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Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights.
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There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation.
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Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights—then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward.
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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
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It is better to be alone than in bad company.
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I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own.
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My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
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System to all things is the soul of business. To execute properly and act maturely is the way to conduct it to your advantage.
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The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
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I’ll die on my feet before I’ll live on my knees!
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Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.
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Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
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A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government.
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Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.
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A man ought not to value himself of his achievements or rare qualities of wit, much less of his riches, virtue or kindred.
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A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
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Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.
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Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
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Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none although they give occasion
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