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George Washington: Let us raise...

George Washington: Let us raise...

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of...

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George Washington: Be courteous to...

George Washington: Be courteous to...

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True...

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George Washington: [Gambling] is the...

George Washington: [Gambling] is the...

[Gambling] is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.

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James Madison: The essence of...

James Madison: The essence of...

The essence of government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to...

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Andrew Jackson: To the victors...

Andrew Jackson: To the victors...

To the victors belong the spoils.

Source: In Best Quotations for All Occasions, by...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: You must do...

Eleanor Roosevelt: You must do...

You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.

Source: In The Book of Success,...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: When you cease...

Eleanor Roosevelt: When you cease...

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Source: letter to Mr....

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George Eliot: There is nothing...

George Eliot: There is nothing...

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but...

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Charles Dickens: We know, Mr....

Charles Dickens: We know, Mr....

We know, Mr. Weller -- we, who are men of the world -- that a good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or...

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Henry Ward Beecher: Free speech is...

Henry Ward Beecher: Free speech is...

Free speech is to a great people what winds are to oceans and malarial regions, which waft away the elements of...

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Henry Ward Beecher: God made man...

Henry Ward Beecher: God made man...

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon...

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Henry Ward Beecher: Next to ingratitude...

Henry Ward Beecher: Next to ingratitude...

Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.

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Henry Ward Beecher: The real democratic...

Henry Ward Beecher: The real democratic...

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man...

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Henry Ward Beecher: When a nation's...

Henry Ward Beecher: When a nation's...

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

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Henry Ward Beecher: We are always...

Henry Ward Beecher: We are always...

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Source:...

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Mahatma Gandhi: My life is...

Mahatma Gandhi: My life is...

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: It is dainty...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: It is dainty...

It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.

Source:...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Common sense is...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Common sense is...

Common sense is as rare as genius.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed....

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Enthusiasm is the...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Enthusiasm is the...

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Enthusiasm is the...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Enthusiasm is the...

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

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