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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

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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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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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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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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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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs
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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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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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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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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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