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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

John Quincy Adams

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
No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
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Freedom Imperfection Life Man Weakness
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
It was the special purpose of Christ’s appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.
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Appearance Light Mortal Purpose
Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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Appearance Defeat
Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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Forever Liberty Lost
You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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Alone Company Poet 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.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

Existence Greatness Knowledge Life
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
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Alone Principle Vote
America, goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

Destroy Freedom Herself Independence Search
Tyranny can scarcely be practiced upon a virtuous and wise people.
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People Practice Virtue Wisdom
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.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

Desire Discover Early Heart Man Praise Recognition
Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
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Knowledge Liberty People
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.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

Beyond God Greatness Law Power Service Soul Thinking
From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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Experience Future Lesson Past
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.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

Charity Compassionate Human Man

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