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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.

Abigail Adams

To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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Comprise Duty Few Good Man Whole Word
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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Confusion Difficulty Great Justice Righteousness Stability Time
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
My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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Accountable Action Maker Remember Son Word
I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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Acknowledge Myself Religion Unitarian
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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Deepest Education First Perhaps Principle Root World
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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Ambition Difficult Hope Ourselves Pride Private Sacrifice Task
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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Hand Husband Power Unlimited
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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Acquire Character Future Importance May Step
A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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Call Frippery Little Necessary World
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
The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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Barbarism Ignorance Level Place Slavery Tenant Wood
These are 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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Calm Character Endurance Genius Life Wish
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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Convicted Creature Dangerous Few Man Power Vested Wisdom
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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Ability Estimate Great Honor Horror Integrity Learning Little Small Truth
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

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