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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of
celestial fire called conscience.
- George Washington
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own
reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
- George Washington
I conceive that a knowledge of books is the basis on which
all other knowledge rests.
- George Washington
Government is not reason. Government is not eloquence. It is force.
And, like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
- George Washington
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and
tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life
you will have been all of these
- George WashingtonCarver
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which
every good citizen owes to his country.
- George Washington
I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to
maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles,
the character of an honest man.
- George Washington
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
- George Washington
We must never despair; our situation has been compromising before;
and it changed for the better; so I trust it will again;
If difficulties arise; we must put forth new exertion and proportion
our efforts to the exigencies of the times.
- George Washington
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