Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth. ― George Washington

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A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool. ― George Washington

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My purpose: to lift your spirit and to motivate you. — Mavis Staples

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It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. ― George Washington

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Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world. ― George Washington

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Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit. ― Helena Rubinstein

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You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.

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You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

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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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How true it is that without the guidance of the Holy Spirit intellect not only is undependable but also extremely dangerous, because it often confuses the issue of right and wrong.

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