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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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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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How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal!
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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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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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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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.
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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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Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
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The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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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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