I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
ABIGAIL ADAMSWe have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.
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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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The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, ‘Give, give.’
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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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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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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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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 we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.
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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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A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in occasional intercourse with the learned.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.
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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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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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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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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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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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