I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
ABIGAIL ADAMSThe parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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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 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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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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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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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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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.
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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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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God.
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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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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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