I acknowledge myself a unitarian – Believing that the Father alone, is the supreme God, and that Jesus Christ derived his Being, and all his powers and honors from the Father
ABIGAIL ADAMSDark 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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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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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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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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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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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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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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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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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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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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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 house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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