Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
ABIGAIL ADAMSIts never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for
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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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But I dare say you have not been so inattentive an observer, as to suppose that Sweet peace, and contentment, cannot inhabit the lowly roof
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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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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The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.
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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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What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?
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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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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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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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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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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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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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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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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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The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.
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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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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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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 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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Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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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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