O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
ABIGAIL ADAMSGreat necessities call out great virtues.
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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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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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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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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant
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The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason… affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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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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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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