Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSAbove all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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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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Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
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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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To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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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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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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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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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
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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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Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
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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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My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.
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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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Tyranny can scarcely be practiced upon a virtuous and wise people.
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A politician in this country must be the man of a party. I would fain be the man of my whole country.
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Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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It was the special purpose of Christ’s appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.
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Be a great speaker, become a leader.
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