Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
ABIGAIL ADAMSBut like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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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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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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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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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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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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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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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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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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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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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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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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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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