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Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?

Abigail Adams

Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Good Man Obligation Possible Read
Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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Ancestor Blessing Hardship Posterity Reap Suffering
The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Contending Difficulty Formed Great Habit Vigorous
I’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
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Conflict Felt Intelligence Number Person View
It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composure
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Affecting Bear Circumstance Dispose Hear Most Week
I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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Acknowledge Myself Religion Unitarian
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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Character Genius Heart Hero Life Pacific Repose Time
These are 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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Calm Character Endurance Genius Life Wish
Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.
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Blessing Children Country Family Heaven Ornament
The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.
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Acquire Character Future Importance May Step
What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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Accounting Fancy Meat One
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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Affection Conviction Heart Love Reason Receiving Taken
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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Country Dare Equally Guarded Inattentive Person Protected Say
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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Convinced Dangerous Grasping Man More
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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Children Country Goodness Grant Impress May Mind Ornament Step Universal
We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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Action Communication Diversity Language Word

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