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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.

Abigail Adams

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
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
Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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Character Hero Life Stateman Walk
If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill’d take the deepest root
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Allow Deepest Depend Early Education Root Youth
And bless the tranquil inhabitants, equally guarded and protected, in person and property, in this happy Country, as those who reside in the most elegant and costly dwellings.
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Country Inhabitant Person Property Tranquil
Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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Good Man Obligation Possible Read
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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Agitated Beautiful Dancing Fine Motion Nature Object Under Wind Woman
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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Friend Happy Harsh Master More Willing
If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
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Determine Equality Foment Memorable Paid Particular Rebellion Women
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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Fruit Lesson Penetration Retirement Wisdom
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
There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.
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Dark Disagreeable Humour Men Soul Vastly
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
If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Hero Learn Mean Perhaps Philosopher Statemen Vanity Women

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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