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!
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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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.
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Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment.
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I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.
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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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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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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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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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History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.
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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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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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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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