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 ADAMSGreat necessities call out great virtues.
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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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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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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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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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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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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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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Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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