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You, the Spirit of the Settlement … Not understand that America is God’s crucible,...
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Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience.
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Never grow a wishbone where your backbone ought to be.
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One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by...
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Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons.
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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written...
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In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.
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And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or...
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Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts...