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 WASHINGTONMake sure you are doing what God wants you to do – then do it with all your strength.
More George Washington Quotes
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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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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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To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
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The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.
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A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
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If the cause is advanced, indifferent is it to me where or in what quarter it happens.
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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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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A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government.
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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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Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.
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Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence.
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It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government.
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