My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
ABIGAIL ADAMSGreat difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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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Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?
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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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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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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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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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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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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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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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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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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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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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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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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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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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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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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs
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Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.
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