O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
ABIGAIL ADAMSThe 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 parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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Great learning and superior abilities…will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.
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The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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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I hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each other.
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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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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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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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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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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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No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
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