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!
ABIGAIL ADAMSHow 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 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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Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.
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History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.
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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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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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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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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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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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