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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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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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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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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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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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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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment.
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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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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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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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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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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