The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
ABIGAIL ADAMSGreat difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill’d take the deepest root
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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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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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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But I dare say you have not been so inattentive an observer, as to suppose that Sweet peace, and contentment, cannot inhabit the lowly roof
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.
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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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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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I hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each other.
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