George Washington Quotes

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

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• I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in that. That's a great person; they're going to be a great doctor.

  

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• At some point, all comics have to go out and be retail salesmen doing door-to-door. And this idea of somebody who totally knows their craft having to get up for free in front of a crowd to work out some stuff they're thinking in their head, still, after as much success as you can get, is really interesting.

  

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• I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.

  

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• I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do.

  

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• All I want to do really is get married and be a matriarch.

  

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• If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wrong, but the coals are.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
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• What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.

  

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• Football became my life at five or six. The earliest memory I have is of playing in my first boots, a pair of black and white Alan Balls. It was 1970, four years after the World Cup, and I scored three goals at school.

  

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• At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes. But when you hit a wall in your personal life, and you screw up, people don't give you a chance to navigate your way through it and tap into what's extraordinary about you.

  

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• I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions, and when the answer is simple, then God is answering.

  

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• Everything is interesting if you know how to work on it.

  

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• The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day. Never let your correspondence fall behind. Whatever piece of business you have in hand, before stopping, do all the labor pertaining to it which can then be done.

  

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• But to write - that is grief and labor; and to read what one has written - how unlike the story as one saw it; how dull, how spirtless - that is enough to send one weeping to bed.

  

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• Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.

  

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• Do not fail, as you go on, to draw something every day, for no matter how little it is, it will be well worthwhile, and it will do you a world of good.

  

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• Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

  

  George Washington
  • Labor
  • Consciences
  • Keep Alive