I’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
ABIGAIL ADAMSBut like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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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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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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I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs
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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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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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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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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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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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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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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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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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