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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.

Abigail Adams

I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.
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Accomplishment Brilliant Liberality Pleasure Sentiment Sex
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
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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Arbitrary Broken Promise Heart Liable Power
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
If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Hero Learn Mean Perhaps Philosopher Statemen Vanity Women
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
You cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . Four years have already past away since you left your native land, and this rural Cottage
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Country Describe Family Feeling Parent Past Since Sweet
But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
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Circumstance Judge Judging Ourselves Person Since
When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant
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Animated Dormant Engage Heart Mind Quality Raised Scene
The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.
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Government Long People Restraint Stacked Submit
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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Awareness Chance Class Educated Family Female Improvement Intellectual Sex
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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Degrade Demoralize Hand Historical Innocent Man Power Woven
No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
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Complaining Difficult Hate High Low Person Shoe
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 difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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Difficulty Great July May Perseverance Surmounted
When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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Bleed John Adam Page Wounded

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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