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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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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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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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All Could Happen Man Remember Tyrant
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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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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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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Acknowledge Myself Religion Unitarian
I acknowledge myself a unitarian – Believing that the Father alone, is the supreme God, and that Jesus Christ derived his Being, and all his powers and honors from the Father
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Believe Father Jesus Knowledge Little More Primitive Simplicity Unitarian
Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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Difficulty Great July May Perseverance Surmounted
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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Blessing Expect Father Manner Primitive Simplicity
Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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Cold Deliver Friend Husband Lover Politician Preacher
Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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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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The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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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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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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