Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.
ABIGAIL ADAMSRemember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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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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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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But such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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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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Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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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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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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But I dare say you have not been so inattentive an observer, as to suppose that Sweet peace, and contentment, cannot inhabit the lowly roof
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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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