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Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

George Washington

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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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Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgement to others with modesty.
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The chief duty of the National Government in connection with the currency of the country is to coin money and declare its value.
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Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for ‘tis better to be alone than in bad company.
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Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections.
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No punishment, in my opinion, is to great, for the man who can build his greatness upon his country’s ruin.
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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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Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.
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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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The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.
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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 persevere in one’s duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny.
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Freedom of inquiry will produce liberality of conduct.
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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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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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I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth.
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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.
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A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
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Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?
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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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Heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound.
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The internet is full of many false and unverified quotes.
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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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It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people.
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My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth,
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We must consult our means rather than our wishes.
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