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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power

Abigail Adams

A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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Call Frippery Little Necessary World
To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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Comprise Duty Few Good Man Whole Word
But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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Defeat Invincible Learn Man Ought Power We
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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Affection Conviction Heart Love Reason Receiving Taken
No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
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Complaining Difficult Hate High Low Person Shoe
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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Circumstance Judge Judging Ourselves Person Since
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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Ambition Difficult Hope Ourselves Pride Private Sacrifice Task
Great learning and superior abilities…will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.
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Ability Estimate Great Honor Horror Integrity Learning Little Small Truth
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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Hand Husband Power Unlimited
The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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Barbarism Ignorance Level Place Slavery Tenant Wood
Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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Comparison Domination Ignorance Man Observation Parent Power
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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Government Long People Restraint Stacked Submit
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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Friend Happy Harsh Master More Willing
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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Degrade Demoralize Hand Historical Innocent Man Power Woven
We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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Action Communication Diversity Language Word
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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Calm Character Endurance Genius Life Wish

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