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
ABIGAIL ADAMSWe have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.
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Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for
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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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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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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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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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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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But such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend.
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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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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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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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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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