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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.»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Courtesy
| Keywords:
all but, be well, courteous, intimate, intimate with, well-tried
«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 the appellation.»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Friendship
| Keywords:
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«Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| Keywords:
excuses, failures, habit, nine, ninety, Ninety nine, percent
«Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Action,
Government,
Politics
| Keywords:
eloquence, fearful, irresponsible, master, servant, troublesome
«The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
Christian, Christian religion, founded, government of the United, government of the United States, States, The Christian, the government, the United States, united, United States, United States government
«It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| Keywords:
bible, govern, impossible, nation, rightly, The Bible
«Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Friendship,
Relationships,
Reputation,
Self-esteem
| Keywords:
associate, associating, Bad Company, company, esteem, esteems, quality, reputation
«It is better to be alone than in bad company.»
«Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| Keywords:
caution, cautioned, cautions, exclusion, forbid, indulge, indulges, maintained, morality, national, prevail, principle, religious, supposition, without reasoning
«The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| Keywords:
disregarded, disregarding, disregards, expected, ordain, ordained, ordains, propitious, Rules of, rules of order, smiles, The Eternal
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