Quote by George Washington
There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon r

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard. – George Washington

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Government is not reason it is not eloquent it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. – 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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Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair the rest is in the hands of God. – George Washington

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Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that its a better something. – Moon Unit Zappa

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At times I experience hardship in trying to find the proper point of balance between traditional things and my own personality. – Princess Masako

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Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so. – Muhammad Iqbal

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Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience. – Denis Waitley

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What a teacher writes on the blackboard of life can never be erased. – Author Unknown