Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
ABIGAIL ADAMSThese 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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Great 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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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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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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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God.
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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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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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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, ‘Give, give.’
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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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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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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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