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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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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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All Could Happen Man Remember Tyrant
Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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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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May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.
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Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.
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I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.
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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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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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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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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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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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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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