There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.
- Washington Irving - In On Change
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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.
- George Washington - In Friendship
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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 - In Government
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When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver - In History
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I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
- George Washington Carver - In Nature
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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
- Booker T. Washington - In Success
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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
- Booker T. Washington - In Workplace
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