True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation.
GEORGE WASHINGTONSystem 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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Decision making, like coffee, needs a cooling process.
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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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Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.
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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
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Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge.
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To persevere in one’s duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny.
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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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Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?
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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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If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity.
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Every man thinks God is on his side.
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99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
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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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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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My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth,
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