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We understand now, we’ve been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were.

John Quincy Adams

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
To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is, the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.
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Existence Greatness Knowledge Life
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
Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.
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Promise Slave
Be a great speaker, become a leader.
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Greatness Leadership
Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.
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Justice Man War
I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.
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Heaven Herself Myself Success Wrong
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 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
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
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Courage Difficult Inspirational Magic Perseverance
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
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
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
Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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Improvement Worthy
If the fundamental principles in the Declaration of Independence, as self-evident truths, are real truths, the existence of slavery, in any form, is a wrong.
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Existence Fundamental Independence Principle Slave Truth Wrong
From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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Experience Future Lesson Past

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