Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point
ABIGAIL ADAMSPosterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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But I dare say you have not been so inattentive an observer, as to suppose that Sweet peace, and contentment, cannot inhabit the lowly roof
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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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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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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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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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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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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The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.
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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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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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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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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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