The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved.
GEORGE WASHINGTONLet your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone.
More George Washington Quotes
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I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
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If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it.
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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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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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Wisdom and good examples are necessary at this time to rescue the political machine from the impending storm.
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The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
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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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The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in.
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To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
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The internet is full of many false and unverified quotes.
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We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
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The hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend.
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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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Freedom of inquiry will produce liberality of conduct.
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I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
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I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from my mom.
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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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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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To persevere in one’s duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny.
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Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none although they give occasion
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The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.
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Experience has taught us, that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures best calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power.
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The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government.
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I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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