A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
GEORGE WASHINGTONTo encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
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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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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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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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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.
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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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Paper 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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Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgement to others with modesty.
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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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Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.
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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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Every man thinks God is on his side.
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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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I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
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A bad war is fought with a good mind.
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We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation.
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I had hoped that liberal and enlightened thought would have reconciled the Christians so that their religious fights would not endanger the peace of Society.
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Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.
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Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair. The rest is in the hands of God.
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Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge.
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The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
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Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights.
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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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Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.
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Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none although they give occasion
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