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.
GEORGE WASHINGTONHappiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.
More George Washington Quotes
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99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
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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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Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.
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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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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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The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
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It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
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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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Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge.
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A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
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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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It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government.
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There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
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Man is the religious animal.
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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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