A people fired with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events.
ABIGAIL ADAMSI 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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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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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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Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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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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The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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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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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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Great learning and superior abilities…will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.
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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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