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Tyranny can scarcely be practiced upon a virtuous and wise people.

John Quincy Adams

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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
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
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Action Dream Inspirational Leadership Learning Yourself
Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.
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Promise Slave
Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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Improvement Worthy
From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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Experience Future Lesson Past
It is my wish to fill every moment of my time with some action of the mind which may contribute to the pleasure or the improvement of my fellow creatures.
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Action Improvement Mindset Moments Myself Time
Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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Appearance Defeat
If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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Deep Value World
Gratitude, warm, sincere, intense, when it takes possession of the bosom, fills the soul to overflowing and scarce leaves room for any other sentiment or thought.
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Gratitude Leaving Soul Thinking
Tyranny can scarcely be practiced upon a virtuous and wise people.
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People Practice Virtue Wisdom
Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
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Knowledge Liberty People
Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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Beginning End Politics Slave
To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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Goodness Right Spiritual
Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.
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Character Hands Nation Oneself War
Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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Book Children Exception Myself See Wife
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

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