Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
ABIGAIL ADAMSSome disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.
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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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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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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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The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason… affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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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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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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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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When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant
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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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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill’d take the deepest root
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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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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But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
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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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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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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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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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