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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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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
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Alone Lost Principle Reflection Vote
Move or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies.
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Body Death Language Ourselves
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
Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
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Democracy Foundation Human Right Theory
Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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Improvement Worthy
You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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Alone Company Poet Yourself
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
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
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
Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
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Knowledge Liberty People
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
If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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Deep Value World
To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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Believe Honesty Man Philosophy Worst
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
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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Difficult Inspirational Patience Perseverance
From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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Experience Future Lesson Past
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
Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.
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Promise Slave
Virtue is not always amiable.
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One Liner Virtue
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
To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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Goodness Right Spiritual
Thus situated, the perilous experiment must be made. Let me make it with full deliberations, and be prepared for the consequences.
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Experiment Myself Philosophy Preparation Result Science
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

Alone Principle Vote
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
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
Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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Appearance Defeat
Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.
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Justice Man War

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