Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
ABIGAIL ADAMSWisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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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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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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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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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If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill’d take the deepest root
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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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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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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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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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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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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