The experience of every age and nation has proved it and we must in a great measure.
GEORGE WASHINGTONWorry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
More George Washington Quotes
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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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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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Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.
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It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
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Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated.
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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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My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth,
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I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.
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One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.
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Religion is a byproduct of fear.
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Man is the religious animal.
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My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.
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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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To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
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Freedom of inquiry will produce liberality of conduct.
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