My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
ABIGAIL ADAMSI’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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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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Its 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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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 parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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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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And bless the tranquil inhabitants, equally guarded and protected, in person and property, in this happy Country, as those who reside in the most elegant and costly dwellings.
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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But such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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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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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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Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.
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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
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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
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If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill’d take the deepest root
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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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I’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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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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Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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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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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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