We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
ABIGAIL ADAMSA people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.
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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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A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.
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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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Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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And bless the tranquil inhabitants, equally guarded and protected, in person and property, in this happy Country, as those who reside in the most elegant and costly dwellings.
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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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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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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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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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May justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion. Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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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