I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
ABIGAIL ADAMSGreat difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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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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May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.
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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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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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A people fired with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events.
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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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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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You cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . Four years have already past away since you left your native land, and this rural Cottage
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