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Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.

John Quincy Adams

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No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
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Freedom Imperfection Life Man Weakness
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak, and that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all His laws.
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Beyond God Greatness Law Power Service Soul Thinking
Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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Improvement Worthy
If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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Deep Value World
Posterity – you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
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Goodness Preservation Yourself
My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.
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Myself Ourselves Right Success
I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
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Myself Poet Warrior
I read my eyes out and can’t read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.
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Eyes Myself Reading See
To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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Goodness Right Spiritual
Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.
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Promise Slave
To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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Believe Honesty Man Philosophy Worst
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
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Desire Discover Early Heart Man Praise Recognition
Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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Book Children Exception Myself See Wife
It was the special purpose of Christ’s appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.
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Appearance Light Mortal Purpose
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
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Virtue is not always amiable.
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