Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
ABIGAIL ADAMSI acknowledge myself a unitarian
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The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.
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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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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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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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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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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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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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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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 few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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You cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . Four years have already past away since you left your native land, and this rural Cottage
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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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