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What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?

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I hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each other.
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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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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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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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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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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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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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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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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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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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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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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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A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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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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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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