These are the times when a genius wants to live.
ABIGAIL ADAMSHow few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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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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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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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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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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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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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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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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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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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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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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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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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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