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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSWe have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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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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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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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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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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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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