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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.

John Quincy Adams

Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.
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Promise Slave
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
Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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Book Children Exception Myself See Wife
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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Difficult Inspirational Patience Perseverance
America, goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.
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Destroy Freedom Herself Independence Search
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
In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.
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Charity Compassionate Human Man
To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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Believe Honesty Man Philosophy Worst
Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.
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Justice Man War
Virtue is not always amiable.
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One Liner Virtue
If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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Deep Value World
Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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Appearance Defeat
We understand now, we’ve been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were.
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Philosophy Understand
Tyranny can scarcely be practiced upon a virtuous and wise people.
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People Practice Virtue Wisdom
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
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Alone Principle Vote

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