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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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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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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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A people fired with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events.
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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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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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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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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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All Could Happen Man Remember Tyrant
That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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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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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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