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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSArbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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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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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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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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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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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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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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