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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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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?
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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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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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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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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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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.
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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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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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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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