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

Abigail Adams

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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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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Arbitrary Broken Promise Heart Liable Power
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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Fruit Lesson Penetration Retirement Wisdom
My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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Bursting Heart Losing Loved One Women
The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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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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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
Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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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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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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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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The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.
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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
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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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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power

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