These are the times when a genius wants to live.
ABIGAIL ADAMSThe 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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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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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composure
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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Great learning and superior abilities…will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.
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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian – Believing that the Father alone, is the supreme God, and that Jesus Christ derived his Being, and all his powers and honors from the Father
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The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.
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The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in occasional intercourse with the learned.
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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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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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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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