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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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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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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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It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composure
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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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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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A people fired with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events.
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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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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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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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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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 desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
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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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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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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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Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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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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If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.
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What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.
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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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Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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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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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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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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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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