Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSPatience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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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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Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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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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Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.
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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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Move or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies.
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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.
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Be a great speaker, become a leader.
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If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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Virtue is not always amiable.
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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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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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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
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