A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.
ABIGAIL ADAMS
That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.
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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.
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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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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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Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.
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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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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
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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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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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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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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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