Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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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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The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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But such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend.
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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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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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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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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Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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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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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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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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May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.
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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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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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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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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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A people fired with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events.
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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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There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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