Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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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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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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May justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion. Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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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What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.
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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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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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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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Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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And bless the tranquil inhabitants, equally guarded and protected, in person and property, in this happy Country, as those who reside in the most elegant and costly dwellings.
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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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