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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSGreat necessities call out great virtues.
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The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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The 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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That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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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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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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May justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion. Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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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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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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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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