We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
ABIGAIL ADAMSMay 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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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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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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Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.
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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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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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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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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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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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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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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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These are the 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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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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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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