Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
ABIGAIL ADAMSYou 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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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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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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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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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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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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History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.
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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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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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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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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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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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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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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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