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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSGreat difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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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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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for
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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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Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point
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There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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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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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.
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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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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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