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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

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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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Appearance Defeat
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
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
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
Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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Improvement Worthy
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
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
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
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
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Alone Principle Vote
Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.
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Justice Man War
You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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Alone Company Poet Yourself
From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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Experience Future Lesson Past
Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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Beginning End Politics Slave
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
The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.
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Earth Government Happiness People Willing
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

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