My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
ABIGAIL ADAMSGreat 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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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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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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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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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.
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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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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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