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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.

Abigail Adams

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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Affection Conviction Heart Love Reason Receiving Taken
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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Conflict Felt Intelligence Number Person View
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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Ability Estimate Great Honor Horror Integrity Learning Little Small Truth
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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Confusion Difficulty Great Justice Righteousness Stability Time
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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Husband Tyrant Unlimited Wedding Women
Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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Accomplishment Arise Benefit Great Women
The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in occasional intercourse with the learned.
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Awareness Chance Class Educated Family Female Improvement Intellectual Sex
Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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Good Man Obligation Possible Read
When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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Bleed John Adam Page Wounded
I hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each other.
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Blessed Collected Day Family Future Own Roof
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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Country Describe Family Feeling Parent Past Since Sweet
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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Ardor Diligence Education Inspirational Learning Perseverance
A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God.
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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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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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Arise Disappointment False Forming Notion Unhappiness
I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs
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Anxious Democracy Fate Monarchy Order Perseverance Place Take

The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.

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