Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
ABIGAIL ADAMSNo one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
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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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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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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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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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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
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A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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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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Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.
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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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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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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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