“Worry is the intrest paid by those who borrow trouble.”
― George Washington
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“It is better to be alone than in bad company.”
― George Washington
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“We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience. ”
― George Washington
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“I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.”
― George Washington
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“Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do--then do it with all your strength.”
― George Washingtonue
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“A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.”
― George Washington
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“Make the most of the Indian hemp seed, and sow it everywhere!”
― George Washington
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“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
― George Washington
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“Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.”
― George Washington
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“The propitious smiles of heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregard the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained."
― George Washington
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“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation. ”
― George Washington
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“My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.”
― George Washington
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“the harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.”
― George Washington
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“There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.”
― George Washington
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"It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it."
― George Washington
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“99% of failures come from people who make excuses.”
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“No Man has a more perfect reliance on the all-wise and powerful dispensations of the Supreme Being than I have, nor thinks his aid more necessary...The man must be bad indeed who can look upon the events of the American Revolution without feeling the warmest gratitude towards the great Author of the Universe whose divine interposition was so frequently manifested in our behalf....In war He directed the sword, and in peace, He has ruled in our councils.”
― George Washington
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“Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country.
― George Washington
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