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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.

Abigail Adams

The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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Cannon House Revolution Roar Shake Sleep Tonight
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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Believe Bustle Desirable Life Man Situation
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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Husband Tyrant Unlimited Wedding Women
Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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Comparison Domination Ignorance Man Observation Parent Power
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Fruit Lesson Penetration Retirement Wisdom
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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Children Country Goodness Grant Impress May Mind Ornament Step Universal
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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Confusion Difficulty Great Justice Righteousness Stability Time
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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Ability Estimate Great Honor Horror Integrity Learning Little Small Truth
How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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Capable Few Soul Nobel Undertaking
There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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Contrary Convince One Reasoning Sense Three
The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in occasional intercourse with the learned.
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Awareness Chance Class Educated Family Female Improvement Intellectual Sex
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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Friend Happy Harsh Master More Willing
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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Fish Government Most People Power Right Strenuous Swallow Vested
Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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Difficulty Great July May Perseverance Surmounted
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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Affection Conviction Heart Love Reason Receiving Taken
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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Calm Character Endurance Genius Life Wish

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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