Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
ABIGAIL ADAMSHumble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason… affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.
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And bless the tranquil inhabitants, equally guarded and protected, in person and property, in this happy Country, as those who reside in the most elegant and costly dwellings.
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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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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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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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The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.
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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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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in occasional intercourse with the learned.
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When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant
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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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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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That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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