Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgement to others with modesty.
GEORGE WASHINGTONPaper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice.
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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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The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
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We began a contest for liberty ill provided with the means for the war, relying on our patriotism to supply the deficiency.
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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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Man is the religious animal.
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Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
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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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Few men are capable of making a continual sacrifice of all views of private interest, or advantage, to the common good.
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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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Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.
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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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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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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
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99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
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Freedom of inquiry will produce liberality of conduct.
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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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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
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Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.
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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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I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
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It is better to be alone than in bad company.
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Every man thinks God is on his side.
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I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.
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Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do – then do it with all your strength.
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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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Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?
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