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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, ‘Give, give.’

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What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.
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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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I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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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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Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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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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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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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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