How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
ABIGAIL ADAMSIts never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for
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The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason… affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.
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These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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I hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each other.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.
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But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
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How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal!
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God.
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History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment.
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I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs
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