I hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each other.
ABIGAIL ADAMSThat your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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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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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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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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These are the 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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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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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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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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Remember 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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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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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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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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No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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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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