That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
ABIGAIL ADAMSThe habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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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.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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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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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 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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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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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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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composure
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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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Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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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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