The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
ABIGAIL ADAMSI’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
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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 parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal!
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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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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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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Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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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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