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
ABIGAIL ADAMS
The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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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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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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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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But such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend.
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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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Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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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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I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, ‘Give, give.’
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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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There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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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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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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