Great necessities call out great virtues.
ABIGAIL ADAMSThe reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.
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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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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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Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point
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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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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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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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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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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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If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill’d take the deepest root
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