Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
ABIGAIL ADAMSThe 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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Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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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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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
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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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The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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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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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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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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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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Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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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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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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